Släkthistoria för Brighty
Brighty Vad efternamn betyder
usually from the early Middle English female personal name Bright(y)eve Britiff (Old English Beorhtgifu a compound of beorht ‘bright fair’ + gifu ‘gift’). Possibly all the post-medieval surnames at (i) below derive from this name but some examples of Bright(e)y could alternatively belong with (ii).occasionally perhaps from the early Middle English male personal name Brightwy representing either Old English Brihtwīg Beorhtwīg or Old English Brihtwin; the two names were much confused. They are compounds of Old English briht beorht ‘bright’ + either wīg ‘battle’ or wine ‘friend ’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
