Brinsley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BRINZ-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Brinsley is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Brinsley mean?
English: English surname from the village of Brinsley in Nottinghamshire
The playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of The School for Scandal, bore it as a middle name.
Is Brinsley a girl's or a boy's name?
Brinsley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Brinsley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Brinsley, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Brinsley than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Brinsley in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Brinsley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Brinsley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Briar, Kenley, Braelynn, Blakely, Finley, Kinley, Wrenley, Sevyn, Kinsley, Teagan, Oakley
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel
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, “Brinsley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brinsley, updated 20 October 2026.