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Brinleigh

Gender
Girl
Say it
BRIN-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#3,458 for girls

Brinleigh is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “burnt clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 3,458th for girls in the US (44 babies).

What does Brinleigh mean?

English: spelling of Brinley, an English surname

“burnt clearing”

Is Brinleigh a girl's or a boy's name?

Brinleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 44 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Brinleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
3,458th among girls
Babies in 2025
44 about 1 in 37,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 44 girls in the US were named Brinleigh, making it the 3,458th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,468th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 82 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Brinleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,772 girls in the US were given Brinleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #120, up from #3,458 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 82 in 20172025
Brinleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202544#3,458
202440#3,758
202358#2,891
202278#2,364
202175#2,384
202070#2,468
201954#3,002
201849#3,244
201782#2,268
201664#2,697
201560#2,890
201447#3,367
201330#4,643
201239#3,914
201131#4,567
201025#5,412
200919#6,808
20088#12,574
200712#9,535
200612#9,282
20055#16,455
20040–
20036#13,837
20020–
20016#13,514

Nicknames for Brinleigh

Names like Brinleigh

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Brinleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brinleigh, updated 20 October 2026.