Brooklynn
- Pronunciation
- [Brook-lynn]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Water: Stream.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Brooklynn
Brooklynn is the alternate American spelling of Brooklyn (see separate entry on Brooklyn for the Dutch Breukelen etymology and New York borough cultural register). The double-N spelling Brooklynn appeared in SSA records in the 1990s and is essentially a 21st-century American invention.
The two spellings are tracked separately by SSA but represent the same underlying place name. The Brooklynn spelling specifically appeals to parents seeking the slightly more visually distinctive form, with the double-N reading as more contemporary and feminine compared to the more traditional single-N Brooklyn. Both forms have been used predominantly for girls in modern American naming.
Brooklynn climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 1995 to the US top 200 girls' rank by 2014 and the top 200 since. Combined with Brooklyn, the broader name family represents one of the more visible 21st-century girls'-naming trends. The name's appeal is the same as Brooklyn's underlying — geographic-cosmopolitan register, urban-cool resonance, the in-built celebrity-baby cultural anchor — combined with the slightly more visually distinctive double-N spelling. Common nicknames Brooke (now itself a popular standalone name), Brookie, and the rare Lyn each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings include the more common Brooklyn (single N, see separate entry). There are no significant international variants since the name's first-name use is essentially American.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Brooklynn
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Brooklynn by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2011 with 2,412 girls named Brooklynn (girl rank #129 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #488 for girls (608 US births). That's 359 places below its 2011 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Brooklynn Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Brooklynn the strongest states are Mississippi, Alaska, West Virginia.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #132 | 205 |
| 2 | Alaska | #146 | 17 |
| 3 | West Virginia | #147 | 109 |
| 4 | North Dakota | #168 | 33 |
| 5 | Montana | #170 | 36 |
| 6 | Missouri | #183 | 314 |
| 7 | Delaware | #187 | 25 |
| 8 | Louisiana | #188 | 242 |
| 9 | New Hampshire | #191 | 24 |
| 10 | Maine | #195 | 30 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | #612 | 249 |
| 2 | New Jersey | #577 | 139 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | #489 | 93 |
| 4 | California | #448 | 804 |
| 5 | Connecticut | #424 | 68 |
| 6 | Arizona | #387 | 174 |
| 7 | Florida | #370 | 479 |
| 8 | Utah | #366 | 101 |
| 9 | Maryland | #355 | 161 |
| 10 | Minnesota | #336 | 169 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Brooklynn in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn | Water: Stream. | Female | English |
| Brooklynne | Water: Stream. | Female | English |
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Compare Brooklynn to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Brooklynn against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).