Broke Family Crest & Name History

Your Broke ancestor may well appear as Brock in earlier records.

The name is usually explained as “Badger, or dweller by a brook”. Records show Broke as one of the forms Brock took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Brocke, Broucke and Broks.

Heraldry and the Broke name

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Broke, so the heraldry linked to Brock is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Want more than a summary? See the Broke family name pack.