Entry № 303 · French origin

Brienne Brienne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bree-EN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Iconic Brienne of Tarth (GoT - Gwendoline Christie)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Fantasy)

A name that means "iconic brienne of tarth (got - gwendoline christie)".

Brienne is from the French — a feminized form of Brian (from the Celtic briga — hill, noble). Brienne is also the iconic town in the Champagne region of France — the iconic Brienne-le-Château was where Napoleon Bonaparte attended military school (1779-1784). Princess Brienne — French-fantasy heritage naming.

Noble hill (French/Celtic).

The name in its native script.

Brienne
Transliteration
Brienne
Pronunciation
/ briˈɛn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Brienne stands.

Brienne 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.

Briennes before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Brienne of Tarth
Iconic Game of Thrones feminist knight.
2011

Names connected to Brienne.

The number behind Brienne.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brienne reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.