How common is the surname Holbrook?

23,843 people in the United States had the surname Holbrook in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,949 Americans. It ranked 1,502nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Holbrook?

Hal Holbrook, American actor (1925–2021), followed by Boyd Holbrook.

Where is the surname Holbrook most common?

Wikidata records people named Holbrook in the United States.

Is the surname Holbrook getting more or less common?

More common. 23,317 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,843 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Holbrook

An English place surname, carried by 23,843 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Holbrook is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Holbrook is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 23,843 people named Holbrook in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,949 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 23,317.

#1,502

rank among US surnames

23,843

people in 2010

8.1

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #1,392)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,493	Helms	23,949	12,892
#1,494	Metcalf	23,946	12,893
#1,495	Goldman	23,940	12,897
#1,496	Schmitz	23,931	12,901
#1,497	Crouch	23,923	12,906
#1,498	McManus	23,909	12,913
#1,499	Arevalo	23,895	12,921

Who is named Holbrook

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

92% of people named Holbrook identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Holbrooks

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Hal Holbrook
American actor (1925–2021)
Boyd Holbrook
American actor and former model, born 1981
John Edwards Holbrook
American zoologist (1794-1871)

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Halbrook
Halbrooks

Surnames that sound like Holbrook

Holbrook has the Soundex code H416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H416.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Holbrook come from?: From Old English hol (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + brōc (“stream, brook”).
How common is the surname Holbrook?: 23,843 people in the United States had the surname Holbrook in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,949 Americans. It ranked 1,502nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holbrook?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Holbrook identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Holbrook?: Hal Holbrook, American actor (1925–2021), followed by Boyd Holbrook.
Where is the surname Holbrook most common?: Wikidata records people named Holbrook in the United States.
What type of surname is Holbrook?: Holbrook is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Holbrook getting more or less common?: More common. 23,317 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,843 in 2010, up 2.3%.
What are other spellings of Holbrook?: Halbrook and Halbrooks.