How Many People Are Named Brooklyn?
people named Brooklyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 2,712 people in the US has this name
Based on 127,055 babies named Brooklyn in Social Security records from 1972 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
7,257 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the name of the borough of New York City, originally derived from Dutch Breukelen meaning "broken land". It can also be viewed as a combination of BROOK and the popular name suffix lyn.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Brooklyn in English. Counting Brooklyn and these spellings together, about 163,853 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Brooklyn, 98.5% were girls and 1.5% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1970s: 96.7% of the babies were girls then and 98.3% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Brooklyn alive today is about 14 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 18 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Brooklyn first appears in the records in 1972 and was given most often in 2011, to 7,257 babies. In 2025, 2,337 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1972 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Brooklyn never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #21, in 2011, and it was in the top 100 for 19 years, 2005 to 2023. In 2025 it ranked #118.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #118 |
| Best rank | #21 (2011) |
| Years in the top 100 | 19 (2005 to 2023) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #29 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Brooklyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Brooklyn were born in Texas than in any other state: about 10,977 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Brooklyn was given 3 times as often in Wyoming, 2.6 times in South Dakota and 2.4 times in North Dakota.
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