Brookelyn
Brookelyn was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,558 among girls’ names; 3,379 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,340 Americans named Brookelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brookelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brookelyn?
#7,558 among girls’ names, 2025
Brookelyn fell from #2,359 in 2015 to #7,558 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 43.7 to 8.7 per million.
244 babies in 2007, the peak
Brookelyn peaked in 2007, when 244 girls were given it, #1,076 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,558 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,309 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,150 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,490 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,981 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,093 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,806 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,509 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,398 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,706 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,359 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,328 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 98 | #1,991 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,612 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,482 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,337 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 205 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 210 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,076 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 243 | #1,055 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 181 | #1,252 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 143 | #1,435 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,433 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,536 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 120 | #1,543 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,619 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,597 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,619 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,231 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,245 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,627 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,881 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,828 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,200 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,588 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,705 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,437 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,637 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,865 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,388 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brookelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brookelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brookelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brookelyn, and how old are they?
3,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,379 Americans ever recorded as Brookelyn. The median Brookelyn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,663 people named Brookelyn (2,657 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 323 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 581 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brookelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Brookelyn are Texas, Ohio and Indiana, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 231 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 158 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 133 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 130 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 125 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 108 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 103 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 93 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 73 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 68 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Brookelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brookelyn is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1979 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brookelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 174,465 babies since 1880, Brookelyn is the fourth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 2,993 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brookelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brookelyn and names like it
- Compare Brookelyn and BrooklynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrookelyn peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brookelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Brookelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brookelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.