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Brock vs Brooklynne

American parents have registered 43,615 Brocks since 1880, against 2,009 Brooklynnes. Brock is still ahead, with 306 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brock against Brooklynne, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brock Brooklynne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Brock has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Brock had 679 and Brooklynne had 86.

Side by side

  Brock Brooklynne
Total US births 43,6152,009
Most in one year 1,378125
Babies in 2025 30614
Estimated living today 42,0002,000
Median age today 2516
Peak year 20032009
Best rank 243rd boys1,742nd girls
Rank in 2025 810th7,491st
First recorded 19141981
Girls / boys 75 / 43,5402,009 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Brocks alive today are over 25; half the Brooklynnes are over 16. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Brock Brooklynne
England and Wales 20512

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Brock and Brooklynne.