Brynja
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brynja is a given name, most frequently recorded in Iceland. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: coat of mail (or plate).
- ISIceland1 in 488◐
- DKDenmark1 in 194K
- NONorway1 in 374K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
coat of mail (or plate)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 4,371 | 83% |
| US United States | 422 | 8% |
| DK Denmark | 137 | 3% |
| NO Norway | 64 | 1% |
| FI Finland | 50 | 1% |
≈5,044 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic4.5K86%
- English3416%
- Danish1583%
- Norwegian Bokmål521%
- Finnish511%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 4,524 | 86% |
| English | 341 | 6% |
| Danish | 158 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 52 | 1% |
| Finnish | 51 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Brynja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, coat of mail (or plate); byrnie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 20 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Brynja Pétursdóttirb. 1977ISIcelandic badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 985 | #139 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 729 | #58 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 586 | #65 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #11,559 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 52 | #2,525 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,545 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,590 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #19,975 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 19 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Brynja?
- Our records include 5,044 bearers of Brynja across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Brynja have the most bearers?
- Brynja is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
- Is Brynja a male or female name?
- Brynja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Brynja mean?
- Recorded meaning: coat of mail (or plate)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brynja”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.