Brooksley — girls' name
20 babies named Brooksley in U.S. Social Security records since 2010, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
70% of everyone ever named Brooksley was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Brooksley in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Brooksley
The Social Security Administration has registered 20 babies named Brooksley between 2010 and 2020, spanning 11 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brooksley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Brooksley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 14 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Brooksley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Brooksley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 20 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Brooksley at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Brooksley popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2010
- Peak year (2011)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 11 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
20 total births across 11 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 9 births in a single year.
Brooksley by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 14 births that decade — 70% of Brooksley's all-time total
Brooksley decade highlights
- Peak decade 14 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Brooksley's strongest decade
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 70% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2010–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.