Girl
Brooklyn
The name Brooklyn carries the meaning "Dutch place name Breukelen", with roots in Dutch. It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2010s. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 5 of them.
DutchDutch place name "Breukelen"
EtymologyMeaning "broken land" or "marshland"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
0
1970s
145
1980s
927
1990s
8,625
2000s
37,476
2010s
51,729
Peaked in the 2010s · 98,902 total U.S. births since 1900