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Brook

Pronounced /bɹʊk/

Rank in 2024
#5,740
Born in 2024
22
Peak year
1980 · #504
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:14 in 2024 (#6,407)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 22 girls were named Brook, about 1 in every 73,327.
  • It peaked in 1980 with 405 babies, ranked #504.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1931.
  • 10,597 girls have been named Brook since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Brook per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 12 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 224 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,472 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,933 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,321 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 635 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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”)).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
Origin
Not recorded
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/bɹʊk/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Brook, CC BY-SA 4.0.