By Emma Waterhouse · Updated October 2026
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Modern invented name or surname, English
"briar meadow, briar clearing"
Modern invented name
Invented name, Celtic, English
"from Brill; from the hunting preserve; brilliant"
English word name
"brightness of light; exceptional intelligence"
" very bright and radiant; clever or talented"
Welsh
"hill"
Yiddish
"brown"
English word name, color name
"brownish or tawny color with streaks of other colors"
English
"woodland clearing"
Spelling variation of Brinley, combination of Brynn and Lee
"burnt clearing; hill + meadow"
English, combination of Brynn + Lee "burnt clearing; hill + meadow"
"from Brinsley"
Italian
"vivacity, zest"
Variation of Briana, English
"strong, virtuous and honorable"
Spanish
"breeze"
Variation of Briseis
Greek
Place-name
"the site of the bridge"
Place name
Latin
"Britain"
"relating to Great Britain"
Variation of Brittany, English
"from Briton"
Swedish, contracted form of Birgit
"high goddess"
Scandinavian, variation of Birgit or Britt
"strength or exalted one"
English name of the French region Bretagne, meaning 'from Briton'
Variation of Brittany, English name of the French region Bretagne, meaning 'from Briton'
"from Britain"
Celtic
"magic"
English place-name
"to slumber"
Irish, English, and Scottish
"broad eye or broad island"
Irish
"small shoe"
"sorrow"
"sorrowful"
"May breast; May hill"
Cornish
"a rush"
"thunder"
"white breast"
Polish
"protection"
English nature name
"small stream"
