Etymology

Kilbride

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Irish Mac Giolla Brighde ← Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Brighde
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  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromMac Gille Brighde“son of the servant of (Saint) Brigit”
  2. Irish · derived fromMac Giolla Brighde
  3. English todayKilbride

Irish and Scottish surname, Anglicized from Irish Mac Giolla Brighde or Scottish Gaelic Mac Gille Brighde (“son of the servant of (Saint) Brigit”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.