Brooklyn

Primarily a girl's name · 98% girls

Meaning

Brooklyn is a unisex first name.

From Wikipedia

Brooklyn first appears in the data in 2014 and has been recorded in 10 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 182 babies (rank #104 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Brooklyn

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Brooklyn yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

4Destiny numberThe builderPractical, steady, gets results through hard work.Sum of every letter. The overall character a name carries.
1Soul urgeThe leaderIndependent, pioneering, drawn to going first.Sum of the vowels — what's said to drive the heart.
3PersonalityThe creativeExpressive, sociable, lifted by playful energy.Sum of the consonants — the outer impression.

771

Total babies (all years)

Years in the data

182

Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

Famous people named Brooklyn

Brooklyn Deckerfilm actor · b. 1987

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year	Babies	Rank
2014	14	#130
2015	182	#104
2016	68	#150
2017	86	#103
2018	79	#101
2019	119	#107
2020	62	#119
2021	80	#107
2022	52	#112
2023	15	#129