Brig

[brɪg]

Background Story

Brig is the English word for a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. The sources checked do not record it as a personal name.

From Chinese 安 (peace, quiet) and 昂 (raise, lift)

From the English word for the colour, via Norman French from a Frankish word

An English word; also recorded as a masculine given name in popular culture

A poet and singer who composed verse for a patron, from Proto-Celtic *bardos, praise-maker.

From a British occupational surname meaning "(female) baker"

English, German and Scandinavian surname meaning "stream"; short form of Rebecca

An English nickname meaning "buck, male deer", from Old English bucc

Variant of Burke, or a German short form of Burkhard or Burkhold

English burl, a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk