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Brodey vs Brooklynn

American parents have registered 38,163 Brooklynns since 1880, against 1,181 Brodeys. Brooklynn is still ahead, with 608 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Brodey against Brooklynn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Brodey Brooklynn

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

Brooklynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1985, when Brodey had 5 and Brooklynn had 16.

Side by side

  Brodey Brooklynn
Total US births 1,18138,163
Most in one year 1132,412
Babies in 2025 5608
Estimated living today 1,20038,000
Median age today 1713
Peak year 20082011
Best rank 1,452nd boys129th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th488th
First recorded 19851975
Girls / boys 0 / 1,18138,132 / 31

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 Brodeys alive today are over 17; half the Brooklynns are over 13. That is 4 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 Brodey Brooklynn
England and Wales 163124
Scotland 310

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: Brodey and Brooklynn.