Explore / Old English Given name & surname · also Celtic
Brill “hill”
Brill is a surname with more than one origin.
At a glance
Popularity score No recent data Boys and girls Leans boys
66.7% boysBased on U.S. population records 33.3% girls
People named Brill in the U.S. Rare About 30 to 300 people. Estimated from birth records for children and population records for adults.
Interest on PerfectNameFinder Not yet scored Not enough visits yet to score. Every read and save counts toward it. Meaning & origin What it means As an English surname, Brill goes back to Proto-Brythonic *breɣ, meaning “hill.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 )
Where it comes from Brill has more than one origin: as an English surname, it comes from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ; as a Dutch and north German surname, it comes from Middle Low German brul; as a Jewish surname, it comes from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 )
How it developed From Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”).
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Similar names If you love Brill, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
“brink of a hill, steep slope”
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“broomy, overgrown with broom”
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Sibling ideas Names that share Brill’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.
About this profile. Meanings and origins are drawn from historical dictionaries and reference works, including Wiktionary; where interpretations differ, we say so. Popularity comes from U.S. Social Security birth records, 1880–2025. Famous namesakes come from Wikidata. Related names are linked through documented relationships; likely links are labeled as such.