Entry № 1623 · Other origin

Breindel Breindel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BRYN-del /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Little brown one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Yiddish)

A name that means "little brown one".

Breindel is from the Yiddish ברײַנדל — broin (brown) + -del (diminutive) — little brown one. Breindel is one of the Yiddish feminine diminutives — central to traditional Ashkenazi Jewish heritage across Eastern Europe (Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Hungary). Often a nickname for Bruria or Bracha. The name appears throughout Yiddish folk literature including the works of I. L.

Little brown one.

The name in its native script.

ברײַנדל
Transliteration
Breyndl
Pronunciation
/ ˈbraɪn.dɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Breindel stands.

Breindel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Breindels before her.

Real people

In fiction
Breindel
Yiddish little brown one.

Names connected to Breindel.

The number behind Breindel.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Breindel reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.