A variant of Adriel, a Hebrew biblical name meaning 'flock of God' or 'God is my help.'
Edriel moves in the luminous company of angelic names — those ending in the Hebrew *-el*, meaning "of God" or "God is," which appear throughout the Abrahamic scriptural tradition in names like Gabriel, Michael, Ariel, and Uriel. The *-el* suffix has been one of the most generative in Western naming history, inspiring centuries of theophoric names that locate the bearer in explicit relationship with the divine. Adding this suffix to a name is a way of saying that something of God inheres in the person named — a weighty and beautiful gesture.
The first element, "Edri-," connects most plausibly to the Germanic naming tradition, where *ed-* or *edr-* roots relate to concepts of wealth, prosperity, and happiness (*ead* in Old English). The Edric family of names — Edric, Edgar, Edmund, Edward — all share this root, which was among the most prestigious in Anglo-Saxon England, borne by kings and saints and woven throughout the legendary history of the English people. Combining this with the Hebrew *-el* suffix creates a name that bridges two of the great naming traditions of Western civilization.
As a modern creative name, Edriel has a distinctly fantastical quality that has made it appealing to parents drawn to the aesthetic of high fantasy, where invented names with Anglo-Saxon and Hebrew phonetics have long served as markers of the noble and the otherworldly. Whether encountered in a medieval manuscript or a contemporary fantasy novel, Edriel has the ring of a name that belongs to someone marked by destiny — a quality that parents choosing it are almost certainly deliberately invoking.