Given name & surname
Brindley
“from the burnt meadow”
In English use, Brindley has a related form in Brinley. One English interpretation is “from the burnt meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Brindley has a related form in Brinley. One English interpretation is “from the burnt meadow.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Brindley has a related form in Brinley. An origin associated with Brinley is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old English berned (“burnt”), built from English burnt + -leigh (“lea”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brindley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 102
- 0 boys · 102 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −66%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 176 as a first name in 2020; 2,281 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.
Brindley’s family of names
Brindley has a related form in Brinley.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Brindley
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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