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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: Tawny

First name variations: Brinlea, Brinlee, Brinlei, Brinleigh, Brinli, Brinlie, Brinly, Brynlea, Brynlei, Brynleigh, Brinley

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Brin, the Yiddish name for Brno, a city in Moravia.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): acronymic surname from Hebrew ben rabi ‘son of …’, and the first letter of each part of a Yiddish double male personal name. See also Brill.
  3. French: nickname for a loud or quarrelsome man, from Old French brin ‘noise’, ‘tumult’.

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