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broadway Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from places called Broadway, in Worcestershire and Somerset, from Old English brad ‘broad’, ‘extensive’ + weg ‘way’, ‘road’, or a topographic name with the same meaning. See also Bradway.
  2. possibly a habitational name from Broadwey in Dorset, ‘the broad manor on the Wey river’, named with Old English brad ‘broad’ prefixed to Wey, an ancient pre-English river name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of broadway Families in the US in 1920
Number of broadway families
 25-47
 9-24		 1-8
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