Entry № 1661 · English origin

Brooklynn Brooklynn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BROOK-lin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Broken land (NYC borough; Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "broken land (nyc borough; brooklynn prince, the florida project)".

Brooklynn is the elaborated spelling of Brooklyn — from the Dutch Breukelen ("broken land") — the NYC borough founded by Dutch settlers in 1646. A top-200 US baby name since 2009. Brooklynn Andrew — American gymnast. Brooklynn Pumroy — American competitive cheerleader. Sometimes the Brooklynn spelling is associated with the country/Southern naming tradition while Brooklyn is associated with East Coast urban naming.

Broken land (NYC borough).

The name in its native script.

Brooklynn
Transliteration
Brooklynn
Pronunciation
/ ˈbrʊk.lɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Brooklynn stands.

Brooklynn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Brooklynns before her.

Real people
Brooklynn Prince
American child actress.
born 2010
In fiction
Moonee
The Florida Project.
2017

Names connected to Brooklynn.

The number behind Brooklynn.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brooklynn reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.