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Brody vs Brooklynn

American parents have registered 81,960 Brodys since 1880, against 38,163 Brooklynns. Brody is still ahead, with 1,492 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Brody 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

Brody has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1954 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Brody had 763 and Brooklynn had 495.

Side by side

  Brody Brooklynn
Total US births 81,96038,163
Most in one year 6,3192,412
Babies in 2025 1,492608
Estimated living today 81,00038,000
Median age today 1413
Peak year 20082011
Best rank 70th boys129th girls
Rank in 2025 236th488th
First recorded 19541975
Girls / boys 282 / 81,67838,132 / 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.

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 Brody Brooklynn
England and Wales 7,855124
Scotland 96710
Ireland 8733
Northern Ireland 4359

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: Brody and Brooklynn.