Brooklyn
Brooklyn stands at #118 nationally in 2025, past its crest and settling. The record does not even know it before 1972; since then, 125,197 American children.
Brooklyn’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Brooklyn, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Brooklyn since 1972
Brooklyn peaked in 2011 at #21; #118 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Brooklyn is most common
Brooklyn is most common in North Dakota: 0.44% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Delaware (0.44%) and Mississippi (0.38%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Brooklyn
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Bella
#136 in 2025
Beckett
#141 in 2025
Brielle
#143 in 2025
Bryson
#152 in 2025
Beckham
#168 in 2025
Barrett
#171 in 2025
Braxton
#172 in 2025
Bailey
#209 in 2025
Browse: names starting with B · all names
About Brooklyn
How popular is the name Brooklyn?
Brooklyn stands at #118 nationally in 2025, past its crest and settling. The full curve since 1972 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Brooklyn mean?
There is no citable gloss for Brooklyn in our public-domain source. We show the chart, the related names and the kit, and leave the etymology to a reference you can check.
Is there a sibling name for Brooklyn?
Nearest by the published recipe: Bella, Beckett and Brielle. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Brooklyn’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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