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Personally I don't make judgments about whether a name is too trendy or not. But if by trendy one means "rapidly growing in popularity", Brooklyn certainly qualifies. It simply did not exist as a girls' given name until the 1990s. In 2005, there were 5,248 girls named Brooklyn or Brooklynn born in the USA. Since there were only a bit over 4,100 girls given the name in 2004, that's an increase of over 25% in one year, and that rate of increase qualifies it as a name which is not just "trendy", but is actually "booming" at the moment. The reason you don't know anyone with the name is because almost all of them are still under ten years old, but believe me they are there.