Brooklyn

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A borough of New York City, New York, United States

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Brooklyn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 30K
  • CACanada≈1 in 53K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

96,523 people, 2020

Sources
371 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brooklyn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Brooklyn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States96,5231 in 3.4K95KBrooklyn371
CN China≈960 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Brooklyn4
AU Australia≈860 est.≈1 in 30K52Brooklyn91
CA Canada≈710 est.≈1 in 53K38Brooklyn148
GB United Kingdom≈610 est.≈1 in 108K7Brooklyn130
NL Netherlands2881 in 60K144—16
NZ New Zealand≈110 est.≈1 in 45K25Brooklyn38

96,523 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Brooklyn is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Dominican Republic, Colombia, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Bröoklyn, Broöklyn, Brööklyn, Brôoklyn, Břôöklyň

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Bróóklyn

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1980199020002010Brooklyn Sudano, b. 1981Brooklyn Chase, b. 1986Brooklyn Decker, b. 1987Brooklyn Lee, b. 1989Brooklyn Beckham, b. 1999Brooklynn Proulx, b. 1999Brooklyn Ezeh, b. 2001Brooklyn Courtnall, b. 2002Brooklyn Shuck, b. 2005

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(measured from records)

Attested in 45 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Brooklyn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202095K#565
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#565
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024204—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—144#3,519
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—144#4,422
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020142#126,357
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010123#136,449
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—87#8,685
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—87#8,685
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)202252—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender202438#92

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Brooklyn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 97 thousand people named Brooklyn, more than in any other country we hold, 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 3.4 thousand people carrying it.
Where does the name Brooklyn come from?
A borough of New York City, New York, United States. It is located on the western end of Long Island. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Brooklyn?
In the United States, the national register counted 96,523 people named Brooklyn in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
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

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brooklyn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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