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Origin Of The Surname Broadbent
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Meaning Of The Surname Broadbent
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Broadbent
Broadbent is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘brad’ meaning wide combined with ‘beonet’, reeds, to mean ‘wide are with reeds growing’. Jim Broadbent the English actor is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Broadbent Statistics
Broadbent is the number 1171 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,309 share the surname Broadbent in the UK.
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