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.