Brooklin
Brooklin was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,965 among girls’ names; 2,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Brooklin 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 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brooklin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brooklin?
#8,965 among girls’ names, 2025
Brooklin fell from #2,936 in 2015 to #8,965 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.1 to 6.8 per million.
135 babies in 2007, the peak
Brooklin peaked in 2007, when 135 girls were given it, #1,647 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,965 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,302 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,205 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,543 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,449 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,697 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,642 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,088 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,233 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,144 | 29.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,936 | 33.1 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,812 | 34.1 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,347 | 44.5 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,404 | 43.7 |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,148 | 50.6 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,995 | 56.3 |
| 2009 | 91 | #2,184 | 49.5 |
| 2008 | 121 | #1,801 | 64.0 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,647 | 70.2 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,110 | 48.4 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,854 | 56.3 |
| 2004 | 99 | #1,896 | 53.9 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,897 | 52.5 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,446 | 36.2 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,462 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 98 | #1,773 | 54.0 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,568 | 31.0 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,163 | 37.4 |
| 1997 | 55 | #2,392 | 31.6 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,849 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,499 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,751 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,506 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,866 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,825 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,164 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,803 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,367 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,998 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,515 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brooklin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brooklin has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brooklin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brooklin, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,042 Americans ever recorded as Brooklin. The median Brooklin alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,861 people named Brooklin (1,818 women and girls, 43 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,944 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 424 |
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 Brooklin born?
The states with the most babies named Brooklin are Texas, California and Ohio, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 135 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 101 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 58 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 52 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 45 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 34 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 34 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 32 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Brooklin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Brooklin?
Brooklin is a less common spelling of Brooklyn: SSA has recorded 2,042 Brooklin and 127,055 Brooklyn since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 171,227 babies since 1880, Brooklin is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 2,970 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 Brooklin
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 Brooklin and names like it
- Compare Brooklin and BrooklynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrooklin peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brooklin since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Brooklin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brooklin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.