Entry № 1637 · 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
Grammatical form

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

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.