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The brody Surname

brody Name Meaning and History

  1. Hungarian (Bródy), Slavic, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of the many towns and cities in central and eastern Europe named with Slavic brod ‘fort’.
  2. Variant spelling of Scottish Brodie.

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Distribution of brody Families in the US in 1920
Number of brody families
 173-344
 58-172
 1-57
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