Family name origins & meanings
- Origin unidentified. : Origin unidentified. Possibly English, a variant of Bradstone, which is probably a topographic name from Old English brād ‘broad’ + stān ‘stone’.
- Origin unidentified. : Alternatively, it may be a translation of a name with similar meaning from some other language, for example the German habitational name Breitenstein, from any of various places so named.