Given name & surname · also Old English
Brindle
“stream, brook”
Brindle is a surname from Old English (ultimately German).
Original GermanBrindl
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brindle goes back to Old English burna, meaning “stream, brook.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Brindle comes from Old English, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Brindle as a surname developed from BRINDL.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1952. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brindle through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78
- 0 boys · 78 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −76%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,169 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brindle’s family of names
In English usage, Brindle as a surname developed from the German form BRINDL.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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