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Girl · Dutch place name, through English
Brooklyn
Say it: BRUUK-lin
Meaning
From the New York borough, named after the Dutch town Breukelen; used as a girls' name partly as a blend of Brooke and Lynn.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A modern American name that entered the top 50 in the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 112,162 babies given this name since 1972
- At its height in 2011, about 1 in 245 girls
- 4,048 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Brooklynn, Brooklin
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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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.