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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Briel

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow, a variant of Bruehl.
  • Dutch : topographic name for someone who lived in an area of marshland, from Celtic brogilo, or a habitational name from the Dutch city in Zeeland so named (also spelled variously Brielle, Brill) or from various minor places in present-day Belgium and Netherlands named with this word.

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