Brielle
Brielle is a modern English feminine given name, a short form of the French name Gabrielle.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Brielle
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Brielle is a modern English feminine given name, a short form of the French name Gabrielle.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Brielle
Brielle first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1972, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2018: 2,938 births, good for #99 nationwide. About 51% of every Brielle on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Brielle ranks #159 for baby girls with 1,865 births, falling sharply (-25%). All told, over 52K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Brielle
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Brielle. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Notable people named Brielle
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- Brielle Davis (born 1984), an Australian recording artist
- Brielle Von Hugel , a contestant on American Idol
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Names that sound like Brielle
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About the name Brielle
Brielle is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 52K births in the dataset. Brielle's peak popularity came in 2018 when it ranked #99. Use the chart and map above to compare Brielle's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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