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Brodrick vs Brooklynn

American parents have registered 38,163 Brooklynns since 1880, against 1,794 Brodricks. Brooklynn is still ahead, with 608 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brodrick 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

Of the 68 years in which either name was published, Brooklynn for 35 years and Brodrick for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Brodrick Brooklynn
Total US births 1,79438,163
Most in one year 562,412
Babies in 2025 15608
Estimated living today 1,70038,000
Median age today 3213
Peak year 19892011
Best rank 1,476th boys129th girls
Rank in 2025 5,861st488th
First recorded 19561975
Girls / boys 0 / 1,79438,132 / 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 Brodricks alive today are over 32; half the Brooklynns are over 13. That is 19 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.

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