Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla
Brighde (Irish) or Mac Gille Brighde (Scottish) ‘son of the
servant of (Saint) Brigit’, more often Anglicized as McBride.
The name Brighid (modern Brigit) means ‘exalted’.
Brighid was probably originally a pagan fire goddess, many of whose
attributes became attached to the historical figure of St. Brigit of
Kildare (452–523), founder of the first Irish convent.
- Scottish: habitational name from any of the various places with
this name, from Gaelic cill Bríghde ‘church of St. Brigit’
(cill being from Latin cella ‘room’, ‘cell’).
Comments for Kilbride