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[9] [10] Various meanings to the name Brodie have been advanced, but given the Brodies uncertain origin, and the varying ways Brodie has been pronounced/written, these remain but suppositions. Some of the suggestions that have been advanced as to the meaning of the name Brodie are: Gaelic for "a little ridge"; "a brow", or "a precipice"; [11]
Brody (/ b r oʊ d i /) is a given name and a surname of either Jewish or British origin, which may also be spelled Brodie. An unrelated name Bródy is found in Hungary and Poland. Notable people with the name include:
[18] [note 9] In some cases, the name of a clan may be identical to the surname of another family, yet there is no etymological link between the employed surname, and there is no historical connection between the different families (for example, the Hebridean/Kintyre surname Brodie is not connected to the surname of the Brodies of Brodie, who ...
Tempted, Lord Brodie resisted Oliver Cromwell's summons to discuss a union of Scotland and England, writing in his diary "Oh Lord he has met with the lion and the bear before, but this is the Goliath; the strongest and greatest temptation is last.". Lord Brodie was the target of an unsuccessful royalist plot for his capture in 1650. He was the ...
Several surnames have multiple spellings; this is sometimes due to unrelated families bearing the same surname. A single surname in either language may have multiple translations in the other. In some English translations of the names, the M(a)c- prefix may be omitted in the English, e.g. Bain vs MacBain, Cowan vs MacCowan, Ritchie vs MacRitchie.
Broderick is a surname of early medieval English origin, and subsequently the Anglicised versions of names of Irish and Welsh origin. English origin
Brodie, a Scottish surname This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 02:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Brodie is a given name and a surname. Brodie may also refer to: Places. Brodie Castle, Scotland; Brodie railway station, a former station in Moray, Scotland;