Brooklyn

Place-name from Dutch

"marshland"

Brooklyn Origin and Meaning

The name Brooklyn is a girl's name meaning "marshland".

Extreme makeover: Brooklyn has gone from jokey Borough Boy name in the 1990s to a leading girls' name starting with B. The status of New York's Brooklyn as hipster heaven is ironic as few bona fide Brooklyn hipsters would choose this name.

Brooklyn first came into widespread public view via the first Beckham boy born in 1999, though it had already entered the lower ranks of the girls' list in 1990, rising to the double digits in 2005, as more and more parents began to see it less as a NYC place name by separating it into its highly name-y syllables – brook and lyn.

Theoretically unisex, Brooklyn is now 98 percent female, while variations Brooklynn and Brooklynne are all girl.

Brooklyn Rank in US Top 1000

# 84 in the US

Brooklyn Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1221 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Brooklyn

• 84 US 2023
• 1221 Nameberry 2025
• 87 Canada 2023
• 924 England 2023
• 86 New Zealand 2018

20 Names Similar to Brooklyn

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• Bailey
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• Karlee
• Lexi
• Mckenzie
• Madison
• Zoey
• Brooklynn
• Kylie
• Paislee
• Peyton
• Jordyn
• Brooke
• Rylie
• Kallie

Famous People Named Brooklyn

• Brooklyn Danielle Decker American model and actress
• Brooklyn Sudano American actress, daughter of singer Donna Summer
• Brooklyn Shuck American actress
• Brooklyn Blue British adult film actress
• Brooklyn Rae Silzer American child actress; twin of sister Londyn Silzer
• Brooklyn McKnight daughter of Mindy from CuteGirlsHairstyles YouTube Channel; twin of sister Bailey
• Brooklyn Jean Stewart daughter of baseball player Chris Stewart
• Brooklyn Buehrle (b. 2009) daughter of baseball player Mark Buehrle
• Brooklyn Faith Jones (b. 2010) quintuplet daughter of Ethan and Casey Jones of TV's "Quints by Surprise"
• Brooklyn Nelson American actress
• Brooklyn Barber (b. 2013) daughter of football player Tiki Barber
• Brooklyn Marie Keller (b. 2013) daughter of Nicole Fokos of "16 and Pregnant"
• Brooklyn Bentley (b. 2014) daughter of actor Wes Bentley
• Brooklyn Elisabeth Lachey (b. 2015) daughter of Nick and Vanessa Lachey
• Brooklyn Elise Paine (b. 2016) daughter of reality TV personalities Erin (Bates) and Chad Paine of "Bringing Up Bates"
• Brooklyn McKnight American Youtube personality
• Brooklyn Doris Daly (b. 2018) daughter of American actress, model and TV personality Kenya Moore

The name Brooklyn in Pop Culture

• Brooklyn from the Dutch word Breukelen, meaning "broken land"
• Brooklyn "Brooke" Hayes antagonist in SophieGTV's YouTube series LPS Popular
• Brooklyn Nine Nine a comedy crime show