The braddock Surname
braddock Name Meaning and History
English: topographic name for someone living by a notable broad
oak, from Old English brad ‘broad’ + ac ‘oak’, or
a habitational name from a minor place so named, such as Broad Oak in
Symondsbury, Dorset. Braddock in Cornwall (Brodehoc in Domesday
Book) may have this origin; the second element may however be Old
English hoc ‘hook of land’, ‘hill spur’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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