Brooklynn

What Brooklynn means

Variant of Brooklyn, meaning “wetland, marsh”

variant of Brooklyn || From Dutch Breukelen, from broek (“wetland, marsh”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Brooklynn” (revision 83830721) and “Brooklyn” (revision 94535082), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Brooklynn?

US: Falling: down from #169 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2070 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 2,412 girls got the name (#129 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 2,644 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 42,214 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (2.22 per 1,000 girls), NH (1.84 per 1,000 girls), NE (1.69 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Brooklynn is #488 in the US and #3705 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brooklynn were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Brooklyn2,300 US · 37 E&W
• Brecklynn18 US
• Brooklynne14 US
• Brooklin11 US
• Brooklyne10 US
• Brookyln5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brooklynn

Girls

• Dakota#295“ally”^*
• Isla#28Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #142 in 2015, #28 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Savannah#135From the word “savannah”^*
• Addison#84Form of Adam, meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*

For a brother

• Dallas#238“dweller at the house in the dale”^*
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Mason#39From a surname for “a stonemason”^*
• Brody#236Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2008, with 6,299 babies; 1,492 in 2025
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jayden#70Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #20 in 2015, #70 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a place name where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brooklynn’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.