Broad in my family tree
English: nickname for a stout or fat person, from Middle English brode, Old English brad. The surname Brading son of Broad suggests that Old English *Brada and Middle English Brade may have been in use as personal names.
Variants: Brade; Braid (Scotland); Bradman.
Cognate: German: Breit.
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