Brookelynn
Brookelynn was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,437 among girls’ names; 3,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,440 Americans named Brookelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brookelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brookelynn?
#5,437 among girls’ names, 2025
Brookelynn fell from #1,782 in 2015 to #5,437 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.5 to 14.3 per million.
240 babies in 2008, the peak
Brookelynn peaked in 2008, when 240 girls were given it, #1,087 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,437 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,051 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,716 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,610 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,689 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,755 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,656 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,114 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,407 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,036 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,782 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,447 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 152 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 197 | #1,231 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 189 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 225 | #1,103 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 232 | #1,103 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 240 | #1,087 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 239 | #1,088 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 193 | #1,250 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,407 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,770 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,986 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,080 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,212 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 70 | #2,238 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,221 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,105 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,560 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,363 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,041 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,110 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,865 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,694 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,509 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,520 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,436 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,265 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brookelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brookelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brookelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brookelynn, and how old are they?
3,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,475 Americans ever recorded as Brookelynn. The median Brookelynn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,580 people named Brookelynn (2,572 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,220 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 7 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 991 |
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 Brookelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Brookelynn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 264 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 179 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 158 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 130 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 97 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 93 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 89 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 82 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 77 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Brookelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brookelynn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1980 it was given 1.2 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 Brookelynn 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 172,388 babies since 1880, Brookelynn is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 2,982 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Brookelynn
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 Brookelynn and names like it
- Compare Brookelynn and BrooklynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrookelynn peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brookelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Brookelynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brookelynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.