Broderick

Broderick is a surname of early medieval English origin and subsequently the Anglicised versions of names of Irish and Welsh origin. It is also a given name.

A toponymic name the broad ridge and Bawdrip, a manor near Bridgwater see also Broadribb. Also a patronymic meaning son of Roderick.[1] The name also has ties to the Vikings, mainly connected to the group of Norsemen that settled in England and coexisted with them after their initial raids in 793. The name has been thought to have been derived from a Norse personal name (Brodir).[2] Brodir (meaning "brother"). Or (Red/blood) from the Nordic word "Blodr", roughly translating to "blood brother" or "brother of red hair" some historians believe this was the family name given to some of the Norsemen who stayed behind in England.

It is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Bruadair, meaning "descendant of Bruadar". The Irish Bruattar /Bruadar /Brodur is first recorded in 853, in the name of Bruattar mac Aeda, an Irish princeling from the south-east of Ireland. As a Norse personal name, Brodir is found in the name of a particular participant in the Battle of Clontarf and of a particular King of Dublin who was killed in 1160.[2]

The name is an Anglicised form of the Welsh Prydderch, meaning "son of Rhydderch".[3] The Welsh personal name Rhydderch was originally a byname meaning "reddish brown".[4]