The brill Surname
brill Name Meaning and History
- English: habitational name from Brill in Buckinghamshire, named with the Celtic element bre- ‘hill’ + Old English hyll also ‘hill’.
- North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of various places in northwestern Germany and the Netherlands named Brill, from Middle Low German brul, bröil ‘wet lowland’. Compare German Bruehl.
- German: from Middle Low German brill ‘eyeglasses’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spectacles or perhaps a nickname for someone who wore them.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): acronymic surname from Hebrew ben rabi ‘son of …’ and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name, most likely Yude (Juda) Leyb. Many Ashkenazic family names beginning with Br- and Bar- are probably of acronymic origin, but without detailed evidence from family histories it is impossible to specify the personal name from which each is derived.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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 dorotheav
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| I''m a Brill! | Lela Brill | 12 |
| JIMMY BRILL |
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| Looking for Robin Brill of Hereford Pa | Joanne White | 1 |
| Brills of Wisconsin |
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| Brill Family, Hessen-Kassel Germany |
Cherie_English
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| Hanna Brill of Dutchess Co., NY |
cramer196
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| Brill Family, Guernsey Co. Ohio |
williamlong26
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| JOHN BRILL, 1861 OHIO |
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