brin

Brin is a surname of Slavic origin and is borne by several individuals in public life. The most widely known bearer is Sergey Brin, born in 1973 in Moscow, then part of the Soviet Union. He co-founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page and has been a leading figure at Google and its parent company Alphabet.

Aside from its use as a surname, the word brin appears in French as a noun meaning a strand or thread, as in un brin de ficelle (a strand of string) or brin de folie (a hint of madness).