Brooklyn
#118 for girls in 2025, 2,300 births · #3,181 for boys in 2025, 37 births
Given to girls 98.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 7,178 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 19 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 125,197since 1972
Brooklyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #118 | 2,300 | #3,181 | 37 |
| 2024 | #107 | 2,500 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #84 | 2,865 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #72 | 3,216 | #2,563 | 53 |
| 2021 | #63 | 3,545 | #2,523 | 52 |
| 2020 | #54 | 4,032 | #2,235 | 61 |
| 2019 | #52 | 4,316 | #1,678 | 95 |
| 2018 | #47 | 4,652 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #39 | 5,213 | #2,003 | 71 |
| 2016 | #34 | 5,971 | #2,066 | 68 |
| 2015 | #31 | 6,333 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #26 | 6,842 | #2,063 | 68 |
| 2013 | #28 | 6,906 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #29 | 6,796 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #21 | 7,178 | #1,812 | 79 |
| 2010 | #34 | 6,130 | #1,739 | 87 |
| 2009 | #37 | 5,677 | #1,409 | 120 |
| 2008 | #48 | 5,317 | #1,571 | 101 |
| 2007 | #57 | 4,887 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 2006 | #66 | 4,719 | #1,823 | 75 |
| 2005 | #78 | 4,132 | #1,772 | 74 |
| 2004 | #101 | 3,266 | #1,687 | 76 |
| 2003 | #118 | 2,925 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #152 | 2,210 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #172 | 1,905 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #176 | 1,831 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #182 | 1,689 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #200 | 1,558 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #227 | 1,328 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #286 | 1,010 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #340 | 774 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #385 | 658 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #467 | 541 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #553 | 426 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #716 | 294 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #911 | 210 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,042 | 164 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #1,113 | 139 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,363 | 100 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #1,420 | 90 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #1,604 | 74 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #1,604 | 69 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,475 | 78 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,621 | 71 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #1,830 | 60 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,187 | 45 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #2,629 | 32 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brooklyn! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1974, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Brooklyn
- 11 spots since 2024 (#107 → #118)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#54 → #118)
- 87 spots since 2015 (#31 → #118)
- Biggest jump: 195 spots in 1991 (#911 → #716)
- Biggest drop: 23 spots in 2024 (#84 → #107)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2011 at #21 (7,178 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 19 yrs · run 2005–2023
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
- Highest: 1 in 245 girls born in 2011 were named Brooklyn (0.41%)
- Latest: 1 in 699 girls born in 2025 (0.14%)
- 48.2% of all girls named Brooklyn (60,337) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 147 | #2,187 (1979) | #4,763 |
| 1980s | 898 | #1,042 (1989) | #1,505 |
| 1990s | 8,488 | #182 (1999) | #427 |
| 2000s | 36,869 | #37 (2009) | #101 |
| 2010s | 60,337 | #21 (2011) | #34 |
| 2020s | 18,458 | #54 (2020) | #83 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brooklyn in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 403 of them was named Brooklyn, which outranked 99.7% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #63Gabrielle4,846
- #64Trinity4,838
- #65Evelyn4,751
- #66Brooklyn4,719
- #66Kylie4,719
- #68Leah4,657
- #69Audrey4,649
- #70Stephanie4,511
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 27,404 of them was named Brooklyn, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,808Rashaad76
- #1,808Tayvion76
- #1,808Yariel76
- #1,823Brooklyn75
- #1,823Andon75
- #1,823Antwone75
- #1,823Azariah75
- #1,840Abdirahman74
- #1,840Akshay74
- #1,840Ashtyn74
Tied with 16 names at #1,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.