Broadfoot Family Crest and Last Name Background

People named Broadfoot share a Scottish surname with a long history. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Bradfute (foot of hill place), a lost”.

Family crest and blazon

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Broadfoot family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Surname origin

Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

The 2010 US Census counted 708 people named Broadfoot, ranking it number 32,485 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames. Get the complete Broadfoot report, with a museum-style coat of arms.