Meaning not yet researched.
Brooklyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,300 in 2025. Its best rank was #21 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #21 in 2011; #118 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Brooklyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#118 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #21.
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Brooklyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,300 girls in 2025. Peak: #21 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 7,178 (2011).
In 2025, 2,300 US girls were named Brooklyn, making it the 118th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #107 in 2024. That is 200 fewer than the 2,500 girls named Brooklyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #21, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,178. For comparison, it was #31 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brooklyn in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 127,055 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 61,046 babies named Brooklyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 38,610 US girls were named Brooklyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 5,971. In 2025 that was about 1 in 699 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brooklyn ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #49 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 16 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Brooklynn (38,163 babies since 1880), Brooklin (2,042 babies since 1880) and Brooklynne (2,009 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brooklyne, Brooklen and Brooklinn are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Brook and Brooke.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brooklyne (743), Brooklen (272), Brooklinn (237), Brooklan (31), Brooklenn (6), Brookllyn (6), Brooklon (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 34 | #49 | #5 |
| South Carolina | 64 | #51 | #30 |
| Nevada | 30 | #65 | #45 |
| Idaho | 26 | #70 | #13 |
| Delaware | 10 | #72 | #25 |
| Louisiana | 49 | #73 | #14 |
| North Dakota | 12 | #74 | #34 |
| Maryland | 50 | #79 | #46 |
| Michigan | 84 | #87 | #14 |
| Washington | 67 | #88 | #38 |
| Wisconsin | 51 | #92 | #22 |
| Arizona | 63 | #92 | #44 |
| Utah | 43 | #96 | #17 |
| Iowa | 31 | #96 | #28 |
| Georgia | 89 | #98 | #22 |
| Missouri | 58 | #100 | #16 |
| Virginia | 70 | #101 | #52 |
| Connecticut | 27 | #104 | #67 |
| Montana | 9 | #106 | #34 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #107 | #14 |
| Alabama | 40 | #108 | #16 |
| Illinois | 84 | #108 | #25 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #109 | #43 |
| North Carolina | 85 | #117 | #32 |
| Maine | 9 | #118 | #57 |
| Tennessee | 62 | #118 | #20 |
| Kentucky | 37 | #119 | #30 |
| Oregon | 28 | #119 | #22 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #121 | #49 |
| Ohio | 85 | #128 | #22 |
| Indiana | 51 | #128 | #20 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #129 | #19 |
| Florida | 129 | #138 | #50 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #139 | #22 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #142 | #41 |
| Oklahoma | 26 | #145 | #15 |
| Pennsylvania | 74 | #146 | #46 |
| Colorado | 37 | #156 | #28 |
| Texas | 206 | #156 | #39 |
| California | 197 | #156 | #47 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #165 | #63 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #197 | #86 |
| Kansas | 16 | #202 | #25 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #211 | #58 |
| New Jersey | 34 | #240 | #89 |
| New York | 62 | #269 | #147 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,300 | #118 | 37 | #3,192 |
| 2024 | 2,500 | #107 | 62 | #2,291 |
| 2023 | 2,865 | #84 | 63 | #2,246 |
| 2022 | 3,216 | #72 | 53 | #2,567 |
| 2021 | 3,545 | #63 | 52 | #2,529 |
| 2020 | 4,032 | #54 | 61 | #2,240 |
| 2019 | 4,316 | #52 | 95 | #1,680 |
| 2018 | 4,652 | #47 | 64 | #2,173 |
| 2017 | 5,213 | #39 | 71 | #2,004 |
| 2016 | 5,971 | #34 | 68 | #2,069 |
| 2015 | 6,333 | #31 | 67 | #2,088 |
| 2014 | 6,842 | #26 | 68 | #2,066 |
| 2013 | 6,906 | #28 | 47 | #2,568 |
| 2012 | 6,796 | #29 | 63 | #2,136 |
| 2011 | 7,178 | #21 | 79 | #1,812 |
| 2010 | 6,130 | #34 | 87 | #1,742 |
| 2009 | 5,677 | #37 | 120 | #1,409 |
| 2008 | 5,317 | #48 | 101 | #1,574 |
| 2007 | 4,887 | #57 | 85 | #1,744 |
| 2006 | 4,719 | #66 | 75 | #1,827 |
| 2005 | 4,132 | #78 | 74 | #1,776 |
| 2004 | 3,266 | #101 | 76 | #1,689 |
| 2003 | 2,925 | #118 | 44 | #2,396 |
| 2002 | 2,210 | #152 | 18 | #4,344 |
| 2001 | 1,905 | #172 | 19 | #4,146 |
| 2000 | 1,831 | #177 | 33 | #2,748 |
| 1999 | 1,689 | #182 | 27 | #3,041 |
| 1998 | 1,558 | #200 | 15 | #4,442 |
| 1997 | 1,328 | #227 | 18 | #3,755 |
| 1996 | 1,010 | #286 | 17 | #3,845 |
| 1995 | 774 | #341 | 16 | #3,882 |
| 1994 | 658 | #385 | 17 | #3,767 |
| 1993 | 541 | #467 | 5 | #8,876 |
| 1992 | 426 | #553 | 9 | #5,710 |
| 1991 | 294 | #716 | 10 | #5,137 |
| 1990 | 210 | #911 | 5 | #8,274 |
| 1989 | 164 | #1,043 | 8 | #5,699 |
| 1988 | 139 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1987 | 100 | #1,365 | 6 | #6,193 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,422 | 6 | #6,023 |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,605 | 5 | #6,653 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1983 | 78 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,622 | 7 | #5,089 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,189 | 5 | #6,168 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,247 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,890 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,320 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,747 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,372 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).