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Brodee vs Brooklyn

American parents have registered 127,055 Brooklyns since 1880, against 742 Brodees. Brooklyn is still ahead, with 2,337 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brodee against Brooklyn, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brodee Brooklyn

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

Brooklyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Brodee had 9 and Brooklyn had 304.

Side by side

  Brodee Brooklyn
Total US births 742127,055
Most in one year 567,257
Babies in 2025 122,337
Estimated living today 730126,000
Median age today 1413
Peak year 20102011
Best rank 2,287th boys21st girls
Rank in 2025 6,803rd118th
First recorded 19911972
Girls / boys 15 / 727125,197 / 1,858

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Brodee Brooklyn
England and Wales 254,694

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: Brodee and Brooklyn.