Names

Means “badger” in Old Norse. In Norse mythology this was the name of a dwarf, the brother and assistant of Sindri.

Derived from Gaelic bróg “shoe” combined with a diminutive suffix. This was the name of several Irish saints, including Saint Patrick’s scribe.

Limburgish form of Bruno.

From a surname that was originally derived from a place in Moray, Scotland. It probably means “ditch, mire” in Gaelic.

Variant of Brody.

From a surname that was derived from Old English brocc meaning “badger”.

Derived from a Middle English surname meaning “a Briton” (a Celt of England) or “a Breton” (an inhabitant of Brittany).

Variant of Brittany.

Variant of Brittany.

From the name of the region in the northwest of France, called in French Bretagne. It was named for the Britons who settled there after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the invasions of the Anglo-Saxons.As a given name, it first came into common use in America in the early 1970s, reaching the third ranked spot for girls by 1989. This was an extraordinary increase over only two decades, though it has since fallen almost as dramatically as it climbed.