Last name: BROADHEAD
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BROADHEAD : This last name is indexed 28,613 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BROADHEAD : 1: English (Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived by a broad headland from Middle English brod ‘wide broad’ (Old English brād) + Middle English heved hed ‘head headland’ (Old English hēafod).2: English: nickname from northern Middle English brad + hed heved ‘broad head’ (Old English brād + hēafod).3: Americanized form of German Breithaupt or any of the cognates in other languages.
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