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Brooke

Pronounced /bɹʊk/

Rank in 2024
#308
Born in 2024
999
Peak year
1996 · #45
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 999 girls were named Brooke, about 1 in every 1,615.
  • It peaked in 1996 with 6,724 babies, ranked #45.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1934.
  • 197,517 girls have been named Brooke since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.8
    Gen X
  5. 2.5
    Millennials
  6. 2.9
    Gen Z
  7. 1.0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 244 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,572 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 20,894 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Millennials: 71,575 babies, 2.53 per 1,000. Gen Z: 83,820 babies, 2.89 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 19,412 babies, 0.96 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook.

  • A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s. it was further popularized by Brooke Shields in the 80s.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/bɹʊk/

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