Briel Family History
Briel Name Meaning
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 Brielle Brill) or from various minor places in present-day Belgium and the Netherlands named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022