Brooklynn
Brooklynn was given to 608 girls in 2025, #488 among girls’ names; 38,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 37,800 Americans named Brooklynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brooklynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brooklynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brooklynn is “a female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brooklyn.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brooklynn?
#488 among girls’ names, 2025
Brooklynn fell from #169 in 2015 to #488 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.1 to 0.38 per 1,000.
2,412 babies in 2011, the peak
Brooklynn peaked in 2011, when 2,412 girls were given it, #129 among girls’ names. The 608 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 608 | #488 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 665 | #469 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 829 | #371 | 0.52 |
| 2022 | 876 | #362 | 0.53 |
| 2021 | 1,036 | #312 | 0.63 |
| 2020 | 1,170 | #262 | 0.72 |
| 2019 | 1,261 | #264 | 0.75 |
| 2018 | 1,426 | #220 | 0.84 |
| 2017 | 1,429 | #215 | 0.83 |
| 2016 | 1,658 | #198 | 0.94 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,896 | #169 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 2,065 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 2,164 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 2,329 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 2011 | 2,412 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 2,191 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 1,968 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 1,829 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,742 | #193 | 0.91 |
| 2006 | 1,437 | #237 | 0.76 |
| 2005 | 1,201 | #274 | 0.65 |
| 2004 | 921 | #346 | 0.50 |
| 2003 | 748 | #406 | 0.41 |
| 2002 | 618 | #462 | 0.34 |
| 2001 | 515 | #519 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 510 | #517 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 495 | #514 | 0.28 |
| 1998 | 462 | #542 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 384 | #595 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 274 | #769 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 209 | #902 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 168 | #1,073 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 170 | #1,069 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 103 | #1,522 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,760 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,801 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,441 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,487 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,758 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,650 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,147 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,575 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,001 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,165 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,438 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,454 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,561 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brooklynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brooklynn has been given almost only to girls: 31 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brooklynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brooklynn, and how old are they?
37,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 38,163 Americans ever recorded as Brooklynn. The median Brooklynn alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 27,660 people named Brooklynn (27,610 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 51 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,000 |
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 Brooklynn born?
The states with the most babies named Brooklynn are Texas, North Carolina and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 61 | #521 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 41 | #267 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 37 | #297 | 1.6× |
| California | 35 | #836 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 30 | #365 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 28 | #619 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 26 | #241 | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 23 | #352 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 22 | #471 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #492 | 0.7× |
Where Brooklynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brooklynn is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1975 it was given 1.8 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 Brooklynn 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 174,623 babies since 1880, Brooklynn is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 608 of their 2,993 babies (20%), again the second 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 Brooklynn
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 Brooklynn and names like it
- Compare Brooklynn and BrooklynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrooklynn peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brooklynn since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Brooklynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Brooklynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brooklynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.