# Brook (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brook/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | “swamp”, “marsh”, “wetland” |
| Pronunciation | /bɹʊk/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Brooke, Brooks |
| US babies named this | 14,021 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,391 / 10,630 (76% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 903, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun brook. * As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Broek, from broek, also related to the above. * As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from Bruck, Bruch (from Bruch (“wetland, marsh”)).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 125 | 1,680 |
| 2012 | 119 | 1,735 |
| 2013 | 104 | 1,919 |
| 2014 | 62 | 2,788 |
| 2015 | 71 | 2,527 |
| 2016 | 83 | 2,289 |
| 2017 | 57 | 2,909 |
| 2018 | 42 | 3,625 |
| 2019 | 51 | 3,134 |
| 2020 | 42 | 3,556 |
| 2021 | 36 | 4,034 |
| 2022 | 32 | 4,395 |
| 2023 | 34 | 4,207 |
| 2024 | 23 | 5,477 |
| 2025 | 32 | 4,373 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 5,229 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5,066 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,431 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5,770 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,384 |
| 2016 | 12 | 6,790 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,098 |
| 2018 | 14 | 6,082 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,829 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,024 |
| 2021 | 17 | 5,373 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,339 |
| 2023 | 17 | 5,496 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,237 |
| 2025 | 15 | 5,896 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 24 | 1,206 |
| 2009 | 27 | 1,139 |
| 2010 | 22 | 1,389 |
| 2011 | 17 | 1,665 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,893 |
| 2013 | 12 | 2,176 |
| 2014 | 12 | 2,203 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2,690 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 18 | 1,431 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Brook

- Brook Taylor, English mathematician (1685–1731)
- Brook Lee, American beauty queen, Miss Universe 1997
- Brook Billings, American volleyball player
- Brook Kerr, American actress
- Skylar Grey, American singer
- Diablo Cody, American screenwriter and author (born 1978)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.