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Brooklyn Girl Name


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Brooklyn name image The name Brooklyn is of English origin, and is a combination of Brook and the suffix lyn.  The table below indicates the number of times the name Brooklyn has been given to baby girls in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Brooklyn
Use of the Name Brooklyn
for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
20,51720,51720,51718,39212,0476,1233,211
The table below indicates the number of times the name Brooklyn has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Brooklyn first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1990, which is the first year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Brooklyn
 Used as a Girl NameUsed as a Boy Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1990909210  
1991717293  
1992551426  
1993468539  
1994385657  
1995341774  
19962861,008  
19972271,323  
19982001,555  
19991821,685  
20001771,825  
20011721,899  
20021522,200  
20031182,912  
20041013,211  
Totals:  20,517 0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Brooklyn as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a boy's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Brooklyn appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 15 times during the last 125 years.


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