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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BRODIE

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(origin: Gaelic. Local) From the lands of Brodie, Co. Moray, Scotland. The name signifies a little ridge; a brow; a precipice. Brody, a town of Gallicia.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).