Where Does the Brodrick Surname Come From?

Arms linked to Broderick and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Some records give Broderick; others give Brodrick. Both point to the same Irish family name. Taken at its root, Brodrick points to “Son of Rhydderch”.

Without the “e” of Broderick, Brodrick is a simpler written form of the same name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Bruder. 753 Americans were listed as Brodrick in the 2010 census.

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