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Brynja

#15,346 in 2025Girls' name

Armour

Brynja has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #15,346 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Brynja, 2025

1 in 663,000

Brynja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brynja: meaning, origin, and history

Armour

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Brynja means

Brynja means “armour”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Brynja is used in Icelandic and Old Norse.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈprɪn.ja/ for Brynja.

Origin, language, and formation

Brynja is used in Faroese and Icelandic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Brynja is pronounced [ˈprɪnja].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 girls were recorded with the name Brynja between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2008; its best national rank was #9,586 in 2008.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,255 in 2015 to #15,346 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Brynja?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,346
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brynja sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brynja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brynjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brynja was born before 2012 — so the typical Brynja is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
148
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Brynja rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,091
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.7%
Peak was 2008 (12)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,586
2008

Spellings of Brynja

Brynja is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 85.0% against Brynja's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Brynja around the world

Where Brynja ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2014–2014
    #2,839
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Brynja by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,346
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,586
2008
Peak year
2008
12 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Brynja

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Brynja

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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