'Brondesbury' means the manor of a man called Brand.
Brand, a canon recorded around 1192–1215, almost certainly gave the manor its name; it was also called Brands or Broomsbury. The canons of St Paul's held Willesden in 1086, and the parish was divided into eight prebends, estates held by canons. The station opened in 1860 as Edgeware Road (Kilburn) and became Brondesbury in 1883.