# Holbrook (surname)

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

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 23,843 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,502 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 12,949 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.3% (23,317 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Halbrook, Halbrooks |

## Etymology

From Old English hol (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + brōc (“stream, brook”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Holbrook 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) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Holbrook in the United States.

## People named Holbrook

- Hal Holbrook, American actor (1925–2021)
- Boyd Holbrook, American actor and former model
- John Edwards Holbrook, American zoologist (1794-1871)

## Similar surnames

Halbrook, Holbert, Holbrooks, Halverson, Halvorson, Hilbert, Hulbert, Halbert, Hilburn, Halpern, Halvorsen, Helfrich.

## 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.