# Brookes (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/brookes/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,225 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,616 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 138,762 people |
| Change since 2000 | +31% (1,703 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Brookes in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 74% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 20% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Brookes in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Brookes

- Norman Brookes, Australian tennis player (1877–1968)
- Jacqueline Brookes, American actress, acting teacher (1930–2013)
- William Penny Brookes, British doctor (1809-1895)
- Mabel Brookes, Australian writer (1890–1975)

## Similar surnames

Brooks, Burkes, Burgess, Barajas, Burgos, Borges, Bourgeois, Burciaga, Borkowski, Bergquist, Borjas, Bargas.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.