Broadgate Family History
Broadgate Name Meaning
from Middle English brod brad ‘wide broad’ + gat(e) geat ‘gateway city gate’. The name may be topographic for one who lived ‘(by the) broad gate’ or perhaps worked there (compare Porter ) or toponymic from a place so named such as Bradgate (Leics).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016