Given name & surname
Bromley
“from the broom meadow”
Bromley is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the broom meadow.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the broom meadow.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English brōm (“broom”), built from English broom + -leigh.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bromley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1946
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 149 as a first name in 2020; 5,285 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.
Bromley’s family of names
In English usage, Bromley as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with BRIMLEY. Bromley has a related form in Bromlea. Bromley has a related form in Bromleah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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