Brooklyn

girls:

120.3k births since 1972

#322 (94th percentile)

boys:

1.8k births since 1979

#2967 (35th percentile)

overall:

122.1k births since 1972

#594 (92nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brooklyn".

1972 2023 19722023

Key Statistics

Total Births
120,309
Peak Births
7,177
Peak Year
2011
First Recorded
1972
Peak Percentile
97.9%
Current Percentile
91.4%
Peak Rank
#21
Current Rank
#82
Female statistics
Total Births
1,755
Peak Births
120
Peak Year
2009
First Recorded
1979
Peak Percentile
12.8%
Current Percentile
6.3%
Peak Rank
#688
Current Rank
#854
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Brooklyn

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Brooklyn. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 72.9% confident that Brooklyn is pronounced as BROOK-lihn. The next most likely pronunciation is BROOK-luhn, at 18.8% confidence.

BROOK-luhn (2 syllables)
Verified
18.8% confidence
B R UH1 K L AH0 N
BRUEK-leen (2 syllables)
8.3% confidence
B R UW1 K L IY0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Brooklyn. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Brooklyn, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BROOK-leen (2 syllables)
7 names 43.2k births
B R UH1 K L IY0 N
BROO-kuh-lihn (3 syllables)
3 names 6.8k births
B R UH1 K AH0 L IH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B R UH1 K L IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.