Genealogy Projects tagged with Bird on the Geni Family Tree

Bird / Byrd Family

English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person from Middle English brid bird burd (Old English bird brid perhaps also byrd) ‘bird young bird’ also ‘young man young woman child’. Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’ in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ) Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ) Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ...