Brooklyn
Brooklyn reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 21, and has been recorded 127,055 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 118th. About 126,000 Brooklyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brooklyn boys named Brooklyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 127,055
- Estimated living today
- 126,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 21st
- Rank in 2025
- 118th
- First recorded
- 1972
- Girls / boys
- 125,197 / 1,858
How old the living Brooklyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 127,055 babies given the name since 1972, about 126,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 90,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a place name
From Dutch Breukelen, from broek (“wetland, marsh”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brooklyns
- Brooklyn Decker (born 1987)American model and actress
- Brooklyn Lee (born 1989)American pornographic actress
- Brooklyn Beckham (born 1999)English model and photographer
- Brooklyn Sudano (born 1981)American actor
People named Brooklyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brooklyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brooklyn is most concentrated in Utah (3.6×), Nevada (2.6×), Idaho (2.5×), Wyoming (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular girls’ names the year Brooklyn peaked:
Brooklyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Brooklyn | 3,132 | 227th |
| England and Wales girls | Brooklyn | 1,562 | 428th |
| New Zealand girls | Brooklyn | 829 | 64th |
| New Zealand boys | Brooklyn | 406 | 79th |
| Scotland girls | Brooklyn | 311 | 206th |
| France girls | Brooklyn | 280 | 1,453rd |
| Ireland boys | Brooklyn | 254 | 252nd |
| Scotland boys | Brooklyn | 194 | 264th |
| France boys | Brooklyn | 165 | 2,189th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brooklyn | 163 | 167th |
| Ireland girls | Brooklyn | 92 | 365th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Brooklyn | 83 | 209th |
| Belgium boys | Brooklyn | 52 | 845th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Brooklyn: rank by region
In 2009, Brooklyn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Brooklyn | 857 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Brooklyn among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Brooklyn | — | 11 |
| Finland girls | Brooklyn | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Brooklyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.