Message: "Gabrien" - Behind the Name

Gabrien

by DorothyV

1/25/2005, 7:07 AM

Does anyone know ANYTHING on the name Gabrien? I made it up and named my son this, but I can't find anything on it. Thanks!

#Gabrien

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- Anneza (guest) +1

1/26/2005, 10:42 PM

You made it up first and wondered about the meaning after that - right? Well, you are luckier than you deserve - it seems you avoided anything obscene, blasphemous, amusing or commercial.

From the look of it, you were probably merging Gabriel and O'Brien. Only you will know why.

- DorothyV

1/27/2005, 7:49 AM

yes u're right. i was thinking of gabriel because i like the nickname gabe, but don't like the name gabriel in case it was mistaken for gabrielle. i was also thinking i liked the names "aiden" and I thought "rien" was a modern type ending. i figured even though i'd never heard it before that it must be a name, it's not too weird or anything. i did find something that said it means "strong as a lion" but i also just found that it means "Strength of God" in Modern English...a bit of a difference, but maybe not. i'm still glad i chose this name though.
thanks for the help

- Chrisell +1

1/25/2005, 5:34 PM

I made it up

If you made it up, why on earth would you expect it to have any other origin or any meaning?

If you're desperate for a meaning, you could probably call it a modern variation of Gabriel, and use Gabriel's meaning (click on hyperlink for details). But it's still just made up.

- DorothyV

1/27/2005, 7:46 AM

i said i made it up because i couldn't find a meaning for it.

- Andy ;—) (guest)

1/25/2005, 11:17 AM

I find it hard to think of anything else than GABRIEL. google brought up a place called St.Gabrien in Austria, a 17th/18th cent. pastor called Johann Gabrien Trögel (East Germany), and a few modern individuals by that name, some of them were Mexicans, but this may just be coincidence.
GABRIEN looks French to me, but maybe Spanish.
Any other ideas?

Andy ;—)

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