How popular is “Brooklyn” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Brooklyn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brooklyn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brooklyn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Brooklyn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1972	6	0.000001909	6		100%
1973	7	0.00000232	7		100%
1974	8	0.000002632	8		100%
1975	12	0.000003974	12		100%
1976	11	0.000003625	11		100%
1977	26	0.000008185	26		100%
1978	32	0.000010082	32		100%
1979	50	0.000015029	45	5	80%
1980	53	0.000015387	53		100%
1981	60	0.000017344	60		100%
1982	78	0.000022235	71	7	82%
1983	78	0.000022522	78		100%
1984	69	0.000019778	69		100%
1985	79	0.000022134	74	5	87%
1986	96	0.000026988	90	6	88%
1987	106	0.000029399	100	6	89%
1988	139	0.000037618	139		100%
1989	171	0.00004448	164	7	92%
1990	215	0.000054396	210	5	95%
1991	304	0.000078043	294	10	93%
1992	435	0.000113244	426	9	96%
1993	546	0.000144817	541	5	98%
1994	675	0.000181566	658	17	95%
1995	790	0.00021572	774	16	96%
1996	1026	0.000281312	1009	17	97%
1997	1346	0.000371234	1328	18	97%
1998	1573	0.000427654	1558	15	98%
1999	1716	0.000464554	1689	27	97%
2000	1864	0.000493134	1831	33	96%
2001	1924	0.000513973	1905	19	98%
2002	2228	0.000595994	2210	18	98%
2003	2968	0.000780576	2924	44	97%
2004	3343	0.000874919	3267	76	95%
2005	4206	0.001093932	4132	74	96%
2006	4794	0.001211772	4719	75	97%
2007	4972	0.00124372	4887	85	97%
2008	5416	0.001377884	5315	101	96%
2009	5796	0.001517208	5676	120	96%
2010	6216	0.001681937	6129	87	97%
2011	7257	0.001983984	7178	79	98%
2012	6858	0.001875119	6795	63	98%
2013	6953	0.001907196	6906	47	99%
2014	6909	0.001864085	6841	68	98%
2015	6397	0.001728493	6331	66	98%
2016	6038	0.001645815	5970	68	98%
2017	5282	0.001476989	5211	71	97%
2018	4716	0.001341336	4652	64	97%
2019	4407	0.001269687	4312	95	96%
2020	4087	0.001223441	4027	60	97%
2021	3592	0.001060228	3540	52	97%
2022	3264	0.000964786	3211	53	97%
2023	2922	0.000882461	2859	63	96%
2024	2549	0.00076581	2487	62	95%

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