Brooklyn
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Brooklyn
It may be the hippest of hispter neighborhoods, but as a baby name Brooklyn is now on the decline: down from a peak of 120 births for boys in 1999, and over 7000 births for girls in 2011.
Brooklyn for boys#3192 US
The most famous male bearer of this name is the eldest child of David and Victoria Beckham, now a successful model and photographer in his own right. The name is now overwhelmingly female, given to 3200 baby girls and only 57 boys last year.
Brooks would be an on-trend alternative for a baby boy.
Brooklyn for girls#118 US
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.
Pronounced BROOK-lin.
As of October 2026, Brooklyn ranked #3192 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1409 in 2009.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,066 | 68 | #26 | 6,841 |
| 2015 | #2,115 | 66 | #31 | 6,331 |
| 2016 | #2,069 | 68 | #34 | 5,970 |
| 2017 | #2,004 | 71 | #39 | 5,211 |
| 2018 | #2,172 | 64 | #47 | 4,652 |
| 2019 | #1,680 | 95 | #52 | 4,312 |
| 2020 | #2,266 | 60 | #54 | 4,027 |
| 2021 | #2,529 | 52 | #63 | 3,540 |
| 2022 | #2,564 | 53 | #72 | 3,211 |
| 2023 | #2,246 | 63 | #84 | 2,859 |
| 2024 | #2,282 | 62 | #108 | 2,487 |
| 2025 | #3,192 | 37 | #118 | 2,300 |
World rankings
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Famous Brooklyns
- Brooklyn Joseph BeckhamBoy
son of designer/musician Victoria Beckham and athlete/model David Beckham
- Brooklyn Danielle DeckerGirl
American model and actress
- Brooklyn SudanoGirl
American actress, daughter of singer Donna Summer
- Brooklyn ShuckGirl
American actress
- Brooklyn BlueGirl
British adult film actress
- Brooklyn Rae SilzerGirl
American child actress; twin of sister Londyn Silzer
- Brooklyn McKnightGirl
daughter of Mindy from CuteGirlsHairstyles YouTube Channel; twin of sister Bailey
- Brooklyn Jean StewartGirl
daughter of baseball player Chris Stewart
- Brooklyn Buehrle (b. 2009)Girl
daughter of baseball player Mark Buehrle
- Brooklyn Faith Jones (b. 2010)Girl
quintuplet daughter of Ethan and Casey Jones of TV's "Quints by Surprise"
- Brooklyn NelsonGirl
American actress
- Brooklyn Barber (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of football player Tiki Barber
- Brooklyn Marie Keller (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of Nicole Fokos of "16 and Pregnant"
- Brooklyn Bentley (b. 2014)Girl
daughter of actor Wes Bentley
- Brooklyn Elisabeth Lachey (b. 2015)Girl
daughter of Nick and Vanessa Lachey
- Brooklyn Elise Paine (b. 2016)Girl
daughter of reality TV personalities Erin (Bates) and Chad Paine of "Bringing Up Bates"
- Brooklyn McKnightGirl
American Youtube personality
- Brooklyn Doris Daly (b. 2018)Girl
daughter of American actress, model and TV personality Kenya Moore
Brooklyn in pop culture
- "HelloBoy
Brooklyn," song by All Time Low
- BrooklynGirl
from the Dutch word Breukelen, meaning "broken land"
- Brooklyn "Brooke" HayesGirl
antagonist in SophieGTV's YouTube series LPS Popular
- Brooklyn Nine NineGirl
a comedy crime show
- Barbie "Brooklyn" RobertsGirl
In the Barbie media franchise and toylines, "Brooklyn" is a girl who shares the same name as Barbie, but goes by Brooklyn to avoid confusion. She's the typical black Barbie produced and appears in almost all media after her 2021 introduction
Variations & nicknames
- BrookelynGirl
- BrookelynnGirl
- BrooklenGirl
- BrooklinGirl
- BrooklinnGirl
- BrooklyneGirl
- BrooklynnGirl
- BrooklynneGirl