Brill

Meaning

Proper Noun

• village Buckinghamshire (county) England (constituent country).

Origin

• As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ + Old English hyll.
• As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul. Compare the variant Bruehl.
• Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille.
• As a Jewish surname, from Hebrew בן‎ followed by a Yiddish personal name, likely acronymic in origin.