Broomhall
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Broomhall (Cheshire, West Riding of Yorkshire), Bromhall (Berkshire), or a residence by a broom-covered nook; first attested Matthew de Bromhale 1182
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bɹumhəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Broomhall is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 65K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 146K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Broomhall (Cheshire, West Riding of Yorkshire), Bromhall (Berkshire), or a residence by a broom-covered nook; first attested Matthew de Bromhale 1182
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Broomhall counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 146K | listed | Broomhall | 113 |
| AU Australia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Broomhall | 91 |
| US United States | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 309 | Broomhall | 134 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Broomhall | 37 |
| CA Canada | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Broomhall | 31 |
| LR Liberia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Broomhall | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Broomhall is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, called, probably the one in Ches., which takes its name from OE brom broom, gorse + halh nook, hollow—i.e. ‘hol¬ low with gorse growing in it’; cf. Bramall. Dims.: Bronisz (directly from the given name); Broniszewski (habitation name).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Benjamin Broomhallb. 1829GBMissionary Secretary, Anti-Opium activist, and author
- George James Short Broomhallb. 1857statistician
- Keith Broomhallb. 1951GBBritish footballer (born 1951)
- Susan Broomhallb. 1974AUAustralian historian and academic
- Stephanie Mortimerb. 1981NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand rugby union player
- John BroomhallGBBritish musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 298 | #62,775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 257 | #79,808 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Broomhall mean, and where does it come from?
- from Broomhall (Cheshire, West Riding of Yorkshire), Bromhall (Berkshire), or a residence by a broom-covered nook; first attested Matthew de Bromhale 1182 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Broomhall?
- A machine transcription gives /bɹumhəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Broomhall have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 451 people named Broomhall in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled broomhall.
- How common is the name Broomhall?
- In the United States, the national register counted 309 people named Broomhall in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/broomhallThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Broomhall”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.