Broderick Family History

Irish: Anglicized form adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó Bruadair ‘descendant of Bruadar’ from the Old Norse personal name Bróthir.

English (northern): habitational name from an unidentified place near Reeth in upper Swaledale (North Yorkshire) perhaps named from Middle English brad (Old English brād) ‘broad’ + northern Middle English rigg (Old English hrycg) ‘ridge of land’.

Alternatively perhaps a nickname with the same etymology denoting someone with a broad back.