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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Brindle

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Brindle, from Old English burna ‘stream’ + hyll ‘hill’.
  • Altered spelling of South German Brindl, Bründl, a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or stream, from a diminutive of Middle High German brun(ne) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or of Brendle or Brendel.

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