Does anyone know a Bridie? Or a name similar?

[MrsGingerbread]

I'm wondering if it is short for something? Possibly Bridget which I'm not keen on?

Does it look a bit like Birdie when it is written down?

Are there any similar names out there?

(PS we are just starting TTC, no baby on the way!)

Pass my condolences to your Auntie Gobnait Sillylass.

I know a brylie

Gobnait? You've made that up surely? - might as well be called Gobshite, in fact, I think I'd prefer that.

They are like pastries where I come from filled with beef - you get plain bridies and onion bridies or as they say a plen bridie an' an ingin ane an ah. If you called someone by that name here you would get the piss taken out of you, it would be like calling someone sausage roll.

Bridie is an Irish shortened name for people called Bridget. I know a Bridget that everyone calls Bridie.

She sounds like a sensible woman Silly

I know a Bridie. She's an arrogant tedious cow.

Other diminutives for Bridget include: Brid (Breej), Gitta (short for Birgitta), Bridin (Bree-jean).

Bridget is probably not my favourite name, but all the Bridgets I've met have been really nice people.

As earlier posters have said, in Scotland a 'Bridie' is a meat pastry. A speciality of Forfar and places nearby.

bridie

Bridie is like Biddy. Maybe the English equipment would be Doris or something. It's considered to be a very ugly and old fashioned name in Ireland. Not in a granny chic way either.

Travellers use loads of Kathleen, Julia, Nellie, Mary etc. But Charlene is popular as well. They wouldn't be caught dead using all the middle-class gaelgor names though!

English equivalent, not equipment!

I know a 2 year old Bridie! In Northern Ireland. She's very very cute, a d I don't think the name sounds as twee and cutesy as other girl names ending in ee sounds.

What about Brid (pronounced Breege) - a similar irish name.

I have an aunt whose full name is Marian Gobnait Maria-Goretti

Also have a Fidelma, Dympna, Bridie, Brighdín & Bríd in my close family.

Don't even think about it. And my mother, a 69 year old Bridget known as Bridie, would say the same. What all the other Irish posters said about it being an unreconstructed Aul Wan's name.

Marian Gobnait Maria-Goretti?!

Wowzers, that's quite the name. Hippy type were they?

My mother was a Bridie. It was her birth name; even on her passport.

She was from County Mayo. No one there called her by any other name.

That's an extreme Catholic name. Is it real?
Maria Goretti was a saint.
Then again I know a woman named Goretti, which is taking it a bit far.

Bridie is short for Bridget. X

I've worked with a Goretti as well, and a Loyola. Being from such a laxy dayzy non mass going background I'd no idea they were religious names and thought they were off the wall made up names!! Like 65 years ago a young irish mum decided, no, not another Mary, this baby is a Goretti!

I know of an elderly Bridie and a young Birdie

Bridie is the better name of the two.

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