Bryher
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- BRY-er
- Origin
- Cornish
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Bryher is a girls' name of Cornish origin, meaning “place of hills”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Bryher mean?
Cornish: name of an island in the Isles of Scilly
“place of hills”
Taken from Bryher in the Isles of Scilly; the novelist Annie Winifred Ellerman adopted it as her pen name.
Is Bryher a girl's or a boy's name?
Bryher is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bryher in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Bryher, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Bryher in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2019. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 43 girls in the UK were given Bryher or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #810, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Bryher in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 5 | #3,233 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 7 | #2,295 |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 5 | #2,815 |
Names like Bryher
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Fiadh, Eden, Aoibheann, Raegan, Eireann, Bree, Ocean, Eira, Orla, Rowan, Brooklyn, Teagan
Other spellings of Bryher
More Cornish names
Elowyn, Lowen, Elowen, Jennifer, Jenna, Denzel, Merryn, Lowenna, Sennen, Elowynn, Morwenna, Demelza, Jennah, Senara, Merrin, Jena
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bryher: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bryher, updated 20 October 2026.