What is "broderick"

Broderick is a surname which is derived from both the Irish and Welsh languages. In some cases it is an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó Bruadair, meaning "descendant of Bruadar".

The name has been thought to have been derived from a Norse personal name (Brodir). However, according to Benjamin Hudson, the Norse Brodir (meaning "brother") is not a proper Norse name at all. 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 only 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.

In other cases the surname Broderick is an Anglicised form of the Welsh ap Rhydderch, meaning "son of Rhydderch". The Welsh personal name Rhydderch was originally a byname meaning "reddish brown".

Broderick is a surname.

Broderick may also refer to:

As a given name:

• Broderick Bozimo (born 1939), Nigerian Minister of State and former Minister of Police Affairs
• Broderick Chinnery (1742-1808), Irish politician and baronet
• Broderick Crawford (1911-1986), American actor
• Broderick Dyke (born 1960), Australian tennis player
• Brodrick Haldane (1912-1996), Scottish-born society photographer
• Broderick Henderson, American politician and member of the Kansas House of Representatives
• Broderick Johnson (fl. 1990s-present), American film producer
• Broderick Perkins (born 1954), American baseball player
• Broderick Smith (born 1948), Australian musician
• Broderick Thomas (born 1967), American football player
• Broderick Thompson (1960-2002), American football player
• Broderick Wright (born 1987), Australian rugby player

Places:

• Broderick, California, a former town in California
• Broderick Park, a municipal park in Buffalo, New York
• Broderick County, Kansas Territory, a county from 1859 to 1861 in the present US state of Kansas
• Broderick, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
• Broderick Falls, Kenya
• 18766 Broderick, an asteroid
• Mount Broderick, a mountain in California