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“The New York borough — named by Dutch settlers after their village Breukelen, 'marshland'; also read as 'brook' plus the suffix -lyn” — Dutch; English origin
Girl's name · #118 in the US (2025) · 2010s
Brooklyn's best rank, #21, came in 2011; it has stepped well back to #118 today. Roughly 125,000 girls have been named Brooklyn since 1972. Together with its spelling variant Brooklynn (#488), Brooklyn would rank around #87 with about 2,900 births last year — the newborns split about 79/21 between Brooklyn and Brooklynn. A popular twin pairing with Brooklyn is Blake for a boy.
Around the world: about 1 in 550 girls in New Zealand (2025) · about 1 in 720 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 1,500 girls in N. Ireland (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 81 notable people named Brooklyn:
Sports figures appear 2.98× more often than among typical names — e.g. Brooklyn McDougall, Canadian long track speed skater.
Similar names: Brooklynn · Skylar · Brooke · Peyton · Jocelyn · Aubrey
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