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

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Peak · girls
2011 · 7,178 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
19 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
125,197
since 1972

Brooklyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #21, 2011girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1182,300#3,18137
2024#1072,500#2,28862
2023#842,865#2,24463
2022#723,216#2,56353
2021#633,545#2,52352
2020#544,032#2,23561
2019#524,316#1,67895
2018#474,652#2,16764
2017#395,213#2,00371
2016#345,971#2,06668
2015#316,333#2,08667
2014#266,842#2,06368
2013#286,906#2,56247
2012#296,796#2,13263
2011#217,178#1,81279
2010#346,130#1,73987
2009#375,677#1,409120
2008#485,317#1,571101
2007#574,887#1,74185
2006#664,719#1,82375
2005#784,132#1,77274
2004#1013,266#1,68776
2003#1182,925#2,39244
2002#1522,210#4,32218
2001#1721,905#4,12119
2000#1761,831#2,73633
1999#1821,689#3,03127
1998#2001,558#4,41315
1997#2271,328#3,73818
1996#2861,010#3,83017
1995#340774#3,85416
1994#385658#3,75117
1993#467541#8,7005
1992#553426#5,6609
1991#716294#5,09610
1990#911210#8,1175
1989#1,042164#5,6158
1988#1,113139
1987#1,363100#6,0896
1986#1,42090#5,9266
1985#1,60474#6,5235
1984#1,60469
1983#1,47578
1982#1,62171#5,0037
1981#1,83060
1980#1,98153
1979#2,18745#6,0565
1978#2,62932
1977#3,00226
1976#5,21511
1975#4,85412
1974#6,2588
1973#6,6667
1972#7,2926
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First appearance
1972

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.

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Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
39 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1972
  • Peaked 2011 at #21 (7,178 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 19 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 19 yrs · run 2005–2023
  • Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1990–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 245
  • Highest: 1 in 245 girls born in 2011 were named Brooklyn (0.41%)
  • Latest: 1 in 699 girls born in 2025 (0.14%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 48.2% of all girls named Brooklyn (60,337) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s147#2,187 (1979)#4,763
1980s898#1,042 (1989)#1,505
1990s8,488#182 (1999)#427
2000s36,869#37 (2009)#101
2010s60,337#21 (2011)#34
2020s18,458#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 2019

girls
#52
4,316 births · 1 in 389 girls
boys
#1,678
95 births · 1 in 18,886 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #52Brooklyn4,316

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #1,678Brooklyn95
More about 2019

girls

1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 389 of them was named Brooklyn, which outranked 99.7% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brooklyn
  1. #49Audrey4,460
  2. #50Bella4,399
  3. #51Nova4,332
  4. #52Brooklyn4,316
  5. #53Paisley4,280
  6. #54Savannah4,186
  7. #55Claire4,130
Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 18,886 of them was named Brooklyn, which outranked 88.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Brooklyn
  1. #1,670Ved96
  2. #1,670Xavion96
  3. #1,670Zavion96
  4. #1,678Brooklyn95
  5. #1,678Aedan95
  6. #1,678Asahd95
  7. #1,678Bryar95
  8. #1,691Antony94
  9. #1,691Edrick94
  10. #1,691Eren94

Tied with 12 names at #1,678; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019