Kilbride Family History
Kilbride Name Meaning
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’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kilbride
Name Distribution of Kilbride Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kilbride families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kilbride families
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53 - 103 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kilbride families
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16 - 29 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kilbride Family Origin
Kilbride Immigration Information
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Kilbride Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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