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.