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Brien - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Brien

[ 2 syll. brien, br-i-en ] The boy name Brien is pronounced as BRAYahN KEY. Brien is mainly used in English and its language of origin is Celtic. Brien is a spelling variant of the English and Irish name Brian.

Brien is uncommon as a baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1969, 0.005% of baby boys were named Brien. It was #782 in rank then. The baby name has seen a fall in frequency since then, and is today used on a very light scale. In 2008, within the family of boy names directly related to Brien, the English and Irish Brian was the most widely used.

Baby names that sound like Brien include the English and Irish Brian, the English Brion, the English and German Bryan, the English Bryen, the English Bryon, the Albanian Bajram, the Hebrew Baram, the Russian Baran, the Hungarian Barna, the English Barney, the English Barnie, the English Barny, the English Baron, the English Barron, the English Berin, the English Berman, the English Bernie, the Czech Berno, the English Berny, and the name Berwin.

KEY: Pronunciation for Brien: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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