How common is the surname Holbrooks?

1,413 people in the United States had the surname Holbrooks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,504 Americans. It ranked 19,210th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Holbrooks getting more or less common?

More common. 1,389 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,413 in 2010, up 1.7%.

The surname Holbrooks

A surname, carried by 1,413 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). Holbrooks is more common than 88.2% of them.

Origin

Compare Holbrook.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,413 people named Holbrooks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 218,504 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,389.

#19,210

rank among US surnames

1,413

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,382)

Who is named Holbrooks

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

93% of people named Holbrooks identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Holbrooks

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

Questions

Where does the surname Holbrooks come from?: Compare Holbrook.
How common is the surname Holbrooks?: 1,413 people in the United States had the surname Holbrooks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 218,504 Americans. It ranked 19,210th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Holbrooks?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Holbrooks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Holbrooks getting more or less common?: More common. 1,389 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,413 in 2010, up 1.7%.