Name profile

Brinley

A name meaning "burned clearing".

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#608

Meaning and history

Brinley is a combination of Bryn and the popular phonetic suffix lee; it also matches an English surname derived from the name of a town meaning “burned clearing” in Old English.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 222 births, rank #1,121
2007: 229 births, rank #1,129
2008: 232 births, rank #1,113
2009: 362 births, rank #781
2010: 444 births, rank #659
20112011: 547 births, rank #530
2012: 613 births, rank #500
2013: 596 births, rank #505
2014: 696 births, rank #459
2015: 785 births, rank #408
20162016: 983 births, rank #339
2017: 1,000 births, rank #328
2018: 955 births, rank #338
2019: 812 births, rank #386
2020: 857 births, rank #362
20212021: 799 births, rank #394
2022: 699 births, rank #449
2023: 622 births, rank #492
2024: 535 births, rank #564
20252025: 481 births, rank #608

Brinley moved from #564 to #608 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2017, with 1,000 births.