The brinkley Surname
brinkley Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places in Cambridgeshire and
Nottinghamshire named Brinkley; the first is most probably named with
the Old English personal name Brynca (of uncertain origin) +
Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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