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

Stories about the name Brooklyn

We live in Brooklyn. We've lived here seventeen years. It was going to be the name or it was never going to be the name — there was no middle ground. We went for it. Our Brooklyn is very proud of her borough.

— Sasha, Brooklyn NY, 2017

We've never set foot in New York. We just liked how it sounded. We knew it was a place. We liked the sound more than we cared about the geography.

— Misty, Tulsa OK, 2019

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More popular girls' names

Other girls' names starting with B

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