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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BROADHEAD

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. English (Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived by a broad headland, i.e. a spur of a mountain, from Middle English brode ‘broad’ + heved ‘head’.
2. Americanized form of German Breithaupt or any of the cognates in other languages.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)