Brooklyn

Place-name from Dutch

"marshland"

Updated Thu Mar 20 2025

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Brooklyn Origin and Meaning

The name Brooklyn is a girl's name meaning "marshland".

Extreme makeover: Brooklyn has gone from jokey Borough Boy name in the 1990s to a leading girls' name starting with B. The status of New York's Brooklyn as hipster heaven is ironic as few bona fide Brooklyn hipsters would choose this name.

Brooklyn first came into widespread public view via the first Beckham boy born in 1999, though it had already entered the lower ranks of the girls' list in 1990, rising to the double digits in 2005, as more and more parents began to see it less as a NYC place name by separating it into its highly name-y syllables – brook and lyn.

Theoretically unisex, Brooklyn is now 98 percent female, while variations Brooklynn and Brooklynne are all girl.

# 84 in the US

Brooklyn Rank in US Top 1000

# 1015 on Nameberry

Brooklyn Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Brooklyn

84US2023
1015Nameberry2025
87Canada2023
924England2023
86New Zealand2018

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