Brooklyn

Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls

Meaning

Brooklyn is a unisex first name.

From Wikipedia

Brooklyn first appears in the data in 1972 and has been recorded in 53 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2011 with 7,178 babies (rank #21 that year). In 2024 it was given to 2,487 girls (rank #108). 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.

124,665

Total babies (all years)

Years in the data

7,178

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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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year	Babies	Rank
1972	6	#7,371
1973	7	#6,747
1974	8	#6,320
1975	12	#4,890
1976	11	#5,248
1977	26	#3,009
1978	32	#2,635
1979	45	#2,189
1980	53	#1,983
1981	60	#1,831
1982	71	#1,622
1983	78	#1,476
1984	69	#1,605
1985	74	#1,605
1986	90	#1,422
1987	100	#1,365
1988	139	#1,113
1989	164	#1,043
1990	210	#911
1991	294	#716
1992	426	#553
1993	541	#467
1994	658	#385
1995	774	#341
1996	1,009	#286
1997	1,328	#227
1998	1,558	#200
1999	1,689	#182
2000	1,831	#177
2001	1,905	#172
2002	2,210	#152
2003	2,924	#118
2004	3,267	#101
2005	4,132	#78
2006	4,719	#66
2007	4,887	#57
2008	5,315	#48
2009	5,676	#37
2010	6,129	#34
2011	7,178	#21
2012	6,795	#29
2013	6,906	#28
2014	6,841	#26
2015	6,331	#31
2016	5,970	#34
2017	5,211	#39
2018	4,652	#47
2019	4,312	#52
2020	4,027	#54
2021	3,540	#63
2022	3,211	#72
2023	2,859	#84
2024	2,487	#108