Name meaning & stats
Brooklyn
Brooklyn means “broken land (from Breukelen)”. 127,055 US babies since 1940, peak 2011.
What it means
“broken land (from Breukelen)”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2011
127,055 US babies were named Brooklyn between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Brooklyn (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 72% of the family
- Brooklyn 72%
- Brooklynn 21%
- Brookelynn 2%
- Brookelyn 2%
- Brooklin 1%
- Brooklynne 1%
- Brooklyne <1%
- Brooklen <1%
- Brookelynne <1%
- Brooklinn <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2011)