Brookelynn
#5,437 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Brookelynn has been given to 3,475 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #5,437 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 240 recorded.
Babies named Brookelynn, 2025
1 in 144,000
Brookelynn over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Brookelynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 144,000
- 23 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 69,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,437
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 99,910 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Brookelynn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brookelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Brookelynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Brookelynn was born before 2009 — so the typical Brookelynn is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 42.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,475
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (1,480).
Is Brookelynn rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,386
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,682
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,655
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.20×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.6%
- Peak was 2008 (240)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.7% average annual change
Spellings of Brookelynn
Brookelynn is not the most common spelling — Brooklyn is, with 72.4% against Brookelynn's 2.0%.
- Brooklyn72.4%125,197
- Brooklynn22.0%38,132
- Brookelynn2.0%3,475
- Brookelyn2.0%3,379
- Brooklynne1.2%2,009
- Brooklyne0.43%743
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Brookelynn is used
Across 2016–2025, Brookelynn was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 72,268 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Brookelynn around the world
Where Brookelynn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2013–2017#5,765in 2017
- Canada1995–2015#2,534in 2015
- South Australia2001–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Brookelynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Brookelynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Brookelynn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brookelynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Brookelynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.