Given name & surname
Brough
“fortified place”
Brough is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brough goes back to Old English burh, meaning “fortified place.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Brough’s family of names
In English usage, Brough as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Burgh. In English usage, Brough as a surname has a related form in BRUFF. In English usage, Brough as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with BURY.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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