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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (mainly County Donegal) and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Brighde, from earlier Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Irish), Mac Gille Brighde (Scottish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Brighid’. Compare Kilbride.

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