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Brynn

Gender
Mostly girls
Origin
Welsh
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls
US rank, 2025
#407 for girls

Brynn is a name of Welsh origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 407th for girls in the US (767 babies).

What does Brynn mean?

Welsh

A female given name from Welsh.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

In recent years, Brynn has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 767 girls and 7 boys in the US.

How popular is Brynn in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,276among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Brynn, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,238th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 6 girls.

2025 had more girls named Brynn than any year since 2018.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

2012Busiest: 6 in 20182025
Brynn in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20240–
20234#4,915
20220–
20210–
20202#7,238
20190–
20186#3,702
20170–
20161#7,664
20150–
20140–
20130–
20121#7,881

How popular is Brynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#407among girls
Babies in 2025
767about 1 in 2,100 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 24% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 767 girls in the US were named Brynn, making it the 407th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 333rd. Its busiest year was 2011, with 1,665 girls. It first appears in the records in 1943. 7 boys were also named Brynn in 2025 (9,710th for boys).

Half of all the girls named Brynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 861 girls in the US were given Brynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #385, up from #407 for this spelling alone.

1943Busiest: 1,665 in 20112025
Brynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025767#407
2024820#383
2023741#414
2022806#388
2021847#361
2020930#333
20191,056#307
20181,087#308
20171,095#297
20161,238#256
20151,229#259
20141,257#262
20131,487#214
20121,656#189
20111,665#192
20101,140#287
2009949#344
20081,039#325
2007925#351
2006800#401
2005736#420
2004879#359
20031,067#291
2002443#585
2001386#653
2000412#616
1999452#558
1998306#721
1997167#1,118
1996175#1,054
1995178#1,020
1994163#1,098
1993161#1,111
1992143#1,214
1991144#1,197
1990178#1,015
1989177#975
1988127#1,186
1987120#1,202
1986168#944
1985168#933
1984210#766
1983226#729
1982294#611
1981147#991
1980161#925
197984#1,442
197825#3,098
197732#2,606
197619#3,539
197516#3,948
197423#3,008
197319#3,341
197219#3,276
19719#5,541
197023#2,938
196921#2,916
196813#3,788
196711#4,052
196613#3,557
196513#3,548
19648#5,007
196315#3,335
19629#4,532
196115#3,317
19600–
19598#4,624
19589#4,192
19576#5,376
19560–
19555#5,826
19548#4,276
19537#4,594
19529#3,795
195115#2,693
195016#2,534
194918#2,339
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19436#4,195

Names like Brynn

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

Eden Bree Aoibheann Keira Caoimhe Quinn Cassidy Teagan Eireann Kiara Raegan Brooklyn

Other spellings of Brynn

Bryn

Names related to Brynn

Bryan Bryony Bryanna Bryana Brynne Brynna Brinn Bryna

More Welsh names

Dylan Owen Winnie Maddox Morgan Idris Reese Bowen Griffin Rhys Gavin Reece Nia Seren Gwendolyn Winifred

Every Welsh name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Brynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/brynn, updated 20 October 2026.