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Feminine

Brynlee

/ˈbrɪn.li/

Hill meadow

WelshAmerican English

How to say it

BRYN · lee

/ˈbrɪn.li/

What it means

Modern American coinage from the Welsh Bryn ('hill') + the English suffix -lee/-leigh ('meadow, clearing'). Part of the -leigh feminine surname wave alongside Hadley, Kinsley, Presley, Everleigh.

Brynlee is a modern American coinage from the Welsh Bryn (a unisex name meaning 'hill') + the English suffix -lee (a respelling of the place-name element -lēah, 'meadow, clearing'). The compound is fully modern; no historical Brynlee village or surname is documented. As a given name it surfaced in the US after 2010 with the broader -leigh and -lee feminine surname-name wave (alongside Hadley, Kinsley, Presley, Everleigh, Oakley). It entered the US top 500 in 2015. Common short: Bryn.

Popularity over time

#10 #100 #1000 #1 #1373918802025

peaked at #187 in 2019, currently #243 in 2025.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, names given to at least 5 babies in a year, 1880–present. See where the names are moving

Heads-up notes

  • Spelling

    Brynlee (-LEE) and Brynleigh (-LEIGH) are the same name; Brynlee is the more common US spelling.

Spelling variants

  • Brynleigh
  • Brinley
  • Brynnlee