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In the United States 0 20 40 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Girls 2000 Boys 2020 per million babies of that sex 2,743 babies given this name since 1945 At its height in 2020, about 1 in 20,600 boys 91 babies in 2020 Names worth a look Brooke Girl From an English surname for someone living by a brook, Old English brōc 'stream'. Modern · peak 1996 Brooklyn Girl From the New York borough, named after the Dutch town Breukelen; used as a girls' name partly as a blend of Brooke… Modern · peak 2011 Braxton Boy From an English surname taken from a place name of uncertain origin, ending in tun 'settlement'. Modern · peak 2017 Brooks Boy From an English surname for someone living by a brook. Modern · peak 2020 Brooklynn Girl A spelling of Brooklyn, the New York borough, named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, whose name is usually… Modern · peak 2011 Burkhard Boy From Germanic burg 'fortress, protection' and hart 'hard, strong'. Middle Ages · forgotten Burgred Boy From Old English burg 'fortress' and ræd 'counsel, advice'. Viking & Saxon · forgotten Breixo Boy Galician form of Verissimus, Latin 'most true', through the cult of Saint Verissimus. Modern Where this comes from United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.