Last name origins & meanings:
- 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 brūl, 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.
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