Brynn for a girl?

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What do people thin of Brynn? Will either be Brynn Elizbath or Brynn Alana.

I have heard it a few times on American tv shows or in films, so I definitely think it's more common there! But I really really like it and would be interested in some input :)

Uncle Bryn would be most bamboozled.

Bronwen or Brianna are better options imo

I have taught a girl called Bryn. It suited her perfectly. I am in N America though, so no associations with beefy Welsh singers...

I actually really like it

Why is it OK to give girls boys's names and not the other way round?

I've asked that before. No one seems to have an answer.

Girls called James = fine, boys called Isabelle = less fine it seems.

Bryn for a girl?

Please don't.

It means "hill" in Welsh by the way.

And even worse than that, once a name that was a boy's name becomes associated with girls, people don't use it for boys any more- it becomes devalued.

It looks like a misspelling of Bryn - a Welsh boys' name

If I saw it, I would think that (a) they've give the baby a boys' name and (b) they've misspelled it. Both of these thoughts would be accompanied by Bryn Terfall singing Bread of Heaven in my head

I think the American fashion of giving girls boys names which are usually of celtic derivation is just awful. Sorry.

I bet there are a few Americans who have heard of Bryn Terfel. Frasier and Niles Crane for two.........

Sorry Terfel

oh dear seems like it's a big no!
Definitely seems it would go down better in the States. I also like Ryan for a girl but again .. very "USA"
thanks for the input everyone :)

I can't hear Bryn without hearing 'it means hill in welsh'

I think it's really pretty and unusual, how about Brynne to make it clear it's a girl's name?

Oh nooooo.

It's a Welsh boy's name spelled wrongly, as everyone has said, and very very American - which is fine if you're American in America I think, but here - it just sounds naff.

How about Bryony? Now that's lovely.

I knew a female Brynn once. She was irish.

Calling a girl Bryn(n)is to me akin to calling a girl David (or Davide to feminise it slightly), I don't care how popular it is in America.

I assume the popularity of Bryn as a girls name took off due to Bryn Mawr, a famous all girl college there.

Are there any other names you like?

Meredith is a Welsh boy's name that became a girls name in the US... Most non-welsh people have no idea because that's not well known outside of Wales (though I reckon Bryn is more well known as a Welsh male name) either way hill is a very unisex meaning so I don't see why it couldn't be used for a girl. (sorry Welsh people!)

There are Welsh names that can be used for boys and girls but Bryn isn't one of them.

Most names have fairly ambiguous meanings and yet you don't see people rushing out to call their daughters Derek or their sons Laura.

Makes me think of Gavin and Stacey too.

If they're going to he the piss taken out of then for being called Derek/Laura then of course you wouldn't. Depending on where you lived you might get away with Bryn, obviously it works in America!

No! Bryony is much better.

You would call your little girl "hill" and after a thousand houses and place names in Wales???? Hill for a boy is great, strong and immovable but totally wrong for a girl.

I really like it! Love Bryony as I know a very lovely one so biased.