Brielle

What Brielle means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brielle yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1972, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brielle?

US: Falling: down from #128 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1204 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 2,939 girls got the name (#99 that year). First in the US records in 1972.

How common

• About 1 in 776 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,333 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (4.23 per 1,000 girls), DE (3.99 per 1,000 girls), NV (3.48 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Brielle is #143 in the US and #526 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brielle were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Brilee19 US
• Braelee11 US
• Briel11 US
• Breella7 US
• Brilla5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brielle

Girls

• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Vivienne#172Variant of Vivian, possibly meaning “alive”^*

For a brother

• Ryker#182Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #182 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Knox#196“round hill”^*
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brielle’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.