Given name
Brynjar
Brynjar is a masculine given name. It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Brynjar isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brynjar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Brynjar
- Brynjar GunnarssonIcelandic footballerborn 1975
- Brynjar Ingi BjarnasonIcelandic association football playerborn 1999
- Brynjar AaNorwegian dramatist1960–2025
- Brynjar NíelssonIcelandic politicianborn 1960
- Brynjar HoffNorwegian musicianborn 1940
- Brynjar GuðmundssonIcelandic alpine skierborn 1989
- Brynjar LiaNorwegian historianborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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