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Girl's name · #118 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
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.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#149 in Canada (2025) · #155 in New Zealand (2025) · #290 in N. Ireland (2025) · #429 in Scotland (2025) · #885 in Ireland (2025) · #951 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,495 in France (2025) · #5,065 in Ecuador (2024) · #2,173 in Austria (2023) · #2,300 in Sweden (2023) · #97 in Australia (QLD) (2022).
Among 81 notable people named Brooklyn:
Sports figures appear 2.98× more often than among typical names — e.g. Brooklyn McDougall, Canadian speed skater (born 1998).
A popular twin pairing with Brooklyn is Blake for a boy.
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.
Similar names: Brooklynn · Skylar · Brooke · Aubrey · Peyton · Jocelyn
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