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Brooklynn

#488 in the US in 2025

Where Brooklynn stands

United States register · 1880–2025

#488girls’ names · US 2025

Brooklynn was the 488th most registered girls' name in the United States in 2025, on 608 births.

peak 2011 · 2,412188019532025

Its moment was 2011, when 2,412 babies were given it. In 1 of the years between, the name fell under the 5-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#488US rank, 2025 (girls)
608US births in 2025
#129its best US rank, in 2011
2011peak year — 2,412 births
38,132US births since 1975
27E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Brooklynn's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Brooklynn was under the floor in 1 year of its US record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 5 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Brooklynn in the United States

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Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Brooklynn in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 60% as a share of girls' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Brooklynn in New Zealand

Brooklynn never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Brooklynn in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Brooklynn was registered 27 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2019 with 10 births. It ranked #3,704 for girls in 2025 on 6 births.

2020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 3-BIRTH FLOOR0.01.83.6
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Brooklynn in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
1980#4,14818
1990#2,79941
2000#517510
2010#1422,191
2020#2621,170

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Where in the United States

The states that registered Brooklynn most often since 1975. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.

StateBirths
Texas3,462
California2,906
Ohio2,382
Michigan2,012
Indiana1,535
Illinois1,430
Florida1,348
Missouri1,214
Tennessee1,200
Georgia1,165

Questions about Brooklynn

How popular is the name Brooklynn?

Brooklynn ranked #488 for girls in the United States in 2025, on 608 births registered with the Social Security Administration.

When was Brooklynn most popular?

Brooklynn peaked in 2011, when 2,412 babies in the United States were given the name.

Is Brooklynn rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all girls' births, Brooklynn has been falling between 2016 and 2025 (-60%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 2011, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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