Bryn

Where Bryn comes from

From Welsh bryn (“hill, mound”), or Cumbric *brınn (“hill”) in the Greater Manchester place-name.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bryn
  • Welsh
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1949
    First appearance
    #3,612 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Bryn Terfel born
    Welsh bass-baritone
  3. 1971
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1993
    Bryn Forbes born
    American basketball player
  5. 2011
    Peak, #744
    370 babies named Bryn — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,325.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Welsh.
  • A female given name from Welsh in occasional modern use.
  • A suburb of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD5700).
Namesakes
  • Bryn Terfel · Welsh bass-baritone, born 1965
  • Bryn Forbes · American basketball player, born 1993
  • Bryn Vaile · British sailor, born 1956
  • Bryn McAuley · Canadian actress, born 1989
  • Bryn Gunn · English footballer, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.