Brooklyn
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Brooklyn is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A borough of New York City, New York, United States.
- USUnited States1 in 3.5K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 53K
- CACanada1 in 69K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈96K ●
- Sources
- 335 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 10 countries
41K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
A borough of New York City, New York, United States. It is located on the western end of Long Island.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 95,196△ | 35K rec. | 1 in 3.5K | 95K | Brooklyn | 335 |
| CA Canada | 3,168 | 1K rec. | — | 38 | Brooklyn | 112 |
| RU Russia | 1,156 | 64 rec. | — | — | Brooklyn | 17 |
| AU Australia | 1,099 | 2.8K rec. | — | 52 | Brooklyn | 88 |
| GB United Kingdom | 698 | 1.1K rec. | — | 7 | Brooklyn | 100 |
| CN China | 679 | 4 rec. | — | — | Brooklyn | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 144△ | 66 rec. | 1 in 120K | 144 | — | 19 |
| IN India | 131 | 23 rec. | — | — | Brooklyn | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | 118 | 100 rec. | — | 25 | Brooklyn | 31 |
| SE Sweden | 107△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 95K | 107 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 51 | 32 rec. | 1 in 981K | 51 | Brooklyn | 8 |
| EG Egypt | 47 | 9 rec. | — | — | Brooklyn | 5 |
Roughly 95K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English15M67%
- Finnish14K1%
- Spanish1.9K1%
- Chinese7271%
- French5911%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 15,367,889 | 67% |
| Finnish | 14,300 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,872 | 1% |
| Chinese | 727 | 1% |
| French | 591 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Brooklyn is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, borough, New York City
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, Brooklyn (a borough of New York City, New York, United States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 12 |
| 1976 | 11 |
| 1977 | 26 |
| 1978 | 32 |
| 1979 | 45 |
| 1980 | 53 |
| 1981 | 60 |
| 1982 | 71 |
| 1983 | 78 |
| 1984 | 69 |
| 1985 | 74 |
| 1986 | 90 |
| 1987 | 100 |
| 1988 | 139 |
| 1989 | 164 |
| 1990 | 210 |
| 1991 | 294 |
| 1992 | 426 |
| 1993 | 541 |
| 1994 | 658 |
| 1995 | 774 |
| 1996 | 1,010 |
| 1997 | 1,328 |
| 1998 | 1,558 |
| 1999 | 1,689 |
| 2000 | 1,831 |
| 2001 | 1,905 |
| 2002 | 2,210 |
| 2003 | 2,925 |
| 2004 | 3,266 |
| 2005 | 4,132 |
| 2006 | 4,719 |
| 2007 | 4,887 |
| 2008 | 5,317 |
| 2009 | 5,677 |
| 2010 | 6,130 |
| 2011 | 7,178 |
| 2012 | 6,796 |
| 2013 | 6,906 |
| 2014 | 6,842 |
| 2015 | 6,333 |
| 2016 | 5,971 |
| 2017 | 5,213 |
| 2018 | 4,652 |
| 2019 | 4,316 |
| 2020 | 4,032 |
| 2021 | 3,545 |
| 2022 | 3,216 |
| 2023 | 2,865 |
| 2024 | 2,500 |
| 2025 | 2,300 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Brooklyn Sudanob. 1981USAmerican actor
- Brooklyn Chaseb. 1986USAmerican pornographic actress
- Brooklyn Deckerb. 1987USAmerican model and actress
- Brooklyn Leeb. 1989USAmerican pornographic actress
- Brooklyn Beckhamb. 1999GBEnglish model and photographer
- Brooklynn Proulxb. 1999CAnot in their usual nameCanadian child actress
- Brooklyn Ezehb. 2001DEGerman-Nigerian association football player
- Brooklyn Courtnallb. 2002CACanadian soccer player (born 2002)
- Brooklyn Shuckb. 2005USAmerican actress
- Brooklyn McLinnUSAmerican actor and former basketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 45 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 556 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Brooklyn?
- We estimate roughly 96 thousand people bear Brooklyn (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Brooklyn have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 95 thousand people bear Brooklyn in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled brooklyn.
- Where is Brooklyn most common?
- Brooklyn is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Brooklyn mean?
- Recorded meaning: A borough of New York City, New York, United States.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brooklyn”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.