Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place in Brandenburg named Britz.
- German : topographic name from Slavic bris ‘birch’, from which the place name is derived.
- German : from a vernacular form of the Celtic personal name Brixius (see Brice).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : acronymic surname from Hebrew ben rabi ‘son of …’ and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. See also Brill.