Brynjar
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/brʏnjɑr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brynjar is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Norway.
- ISIceland
- NONorway
- DKDenmark
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Brynjar Hoffb. 1940NONorwegian musician
- Brynjar Aab. 1960NONorwegian dramatist
- Brynjar Níelssonb. 1960ISIcelandic politician
- Brynjar Liab. 1966NONorwegian historian
- Brynjar Melingb. 1967NONorwegian lawyer
- Brynjar Gunnarssonb. 1975ISIcelandic footballer
- Brynjar Rasmussenb. 1977NOmusician
- Brynjar Kristinssonb. 1988ISIcelandic cross country skier
- Brynjar Jökull Guðmundssonb. 1989ISIcelandic alpine skier
- Brynjar Ingi Bjarnasonb. 1999ISIcelandic association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Brynjar?
- A machine transcription gives /brʏnjɑr/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Brynjar a male or female name?
- Brynjar is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB) and Iceland (Hagstofa, 2023).
- In which country does Brynjar have the most bearers?
- Brynjar is most frequently recorded in Norway.
What do you want to know about Brynjar?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brynjarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Brynjar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.