Family name origins & meanings
- Perhaps an altered form of the English habitational name Brighouse, from a place in West Yorkshire, so named from Old English brycg ‘bridge’ + hūs ‘house’, or alternatively a topographic name from Middle English briggehouse ‘house or tower at or over the entrance to a bridge’, or for someone who lived at a house made of bricks or at a place where bricks were made, Middle English brike ‘brick’ + hous ‘house’.