Braden Family History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’ a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. The Gaelic name was sometimes translated into English as Salmon or Fisher.

English: perhaps a habitational name from Broadham in Singleton (Sussex) named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + hamm ‘water meadow’.

English: alternatively it may be from Braydon Forest in Wiltshire recorded as Braden(e), Braddene, Braddon, Breden, and Bredon in the medieval period.