Brook
#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 75.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 405 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,630since 1931
Brook over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,352 | 32 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #2,903 | 57 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #2,781 | 62 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #1,918 | 104 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #1,733 | 119 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #1,679 | 125 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #1,794 | 114 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #1,612 | 139 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #1,415 | 168 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #1,189 | 213 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #1,234 | 195 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #1,227 | 185 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #1,216 | 183 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #959 | 243 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #1,094 | 194 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #900 | 252 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #811 | 279 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #778 | 283 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #675 | 342 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #744 | 287 | #1,933 | 47 |
| 1996 | #695 | 311 | #2,073 | 41 |
| 1995 | #651 | 330 | #2,140 | 38 |
| 1994 | #635 | 345 | #1,773 | 49 |
| 1993 | #658 | 338 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #693 | 312 | #2,002 | 39 |
| 1991 | #847 | 236 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #869 | 225 | #1,564 | 53 |
| 1989 | #863 | 214 | #1,550 | 52 |
| 1988 | #897 | 195 | #1,451 | 53 |
| 1987 | #997 | 157 | #1,563 | 45 |
| 1986 | #1,013 | 151 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | #957 | 162 | #1,354 | 51 |
| 1984 | #875 | 173 | #1,198 | 58 |
| 1983 | #942 | 157 | #1,107 | 65 |
| 1982 | #679 | 259 | #1,164 | 62 |
| 1981 | #525 | 368 | #1,143 | 64 |
| 1980 | #503 | 405 | #938 | 91 |
| 1979 | #584 | 312 | #917 | 91 |
| 1978 | #632 | 261 | #1,079 | 65 |
| 1977 | #641 | 259 | #882 | 92 |
| 1976 | #637 | 242 | #825 | 103 |
| 1975 | #800 | 173 | #850 | 96 |
| 1974 | #825 | 162 | #825 | 95 |
| 1973 | #917 | 134 | #948 | 72 |
| 1972 | #937 | 131 | #868 | 86 |
| 1971 | #1,103 | 108 | #755 | 118 |
| 1970 | #1,389 | 75 | #779 | 112 |
| 1969 | #2,023 | 38 | #885 | 74 |
| 1968 | #1,575 | 53 | #884 | 66 |
| 1967 | #1,905 | 38 | #1,018 | 51 |
| 1966 | #1,488 | 55 | #916 | 63 |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 | #1,064 | 48 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 | #958 | 63 |
| 1963 | #2,780 | 20 | #842 | 81 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 | #822 | 85 |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 | #663 | 139 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 | #1,252 | 39 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | #1,416 | 31 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | #2,093 | 15 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | #1,634 | 24 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 | #1,676 | 22 |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 | #1,845 | 18 |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | #2,114 | 14 |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 | #2,391 | 11 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | #2,153 | 13 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | #2,495 | 10 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | #3,176 | 11 | #2,123 | 13 |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,242 | 10 | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
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| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brook! It came in at #4,331, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1931–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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- 1,091 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #4,352)
- 806 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #4,352)
- 1,828 spots since 2015 (#2,524 → #4,352)
- Biggest jump: 166 spots in 1972 (#1,103 → #937)
- Biggest drop: 263 spots in 1983 (#679 → #942)
- Debuted 1931
- Peaked 1980 at #503 (405 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1987–2001
- Highest: 1 in 4,100 girls born in 1980 were named Brook (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.3% of all girls named Brook (3,009) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1971, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,331 (1931) | #4,331 |
| 1940s | 25 | #3,176 (1949) | #3,689 |
| 1950s | 107 | #2,971 (1955) | #3,747 |
| 1960s | 308 | #1,488 (1966) | #2,375 |
| 1970s | 1,857 | #584 (1979) | #847 |
| 1980s | 2,241 | #503 (1980) | #825 |
| 1990s | 3,009 | #635 (1994) | #725 |
| 2000s | 2,051 | #811 (2000) | #1,166 |
| 2010s | 828 | #1,679 (2011) | #2,436 |
| 2020s | 199 | #3,546 (2020) | #4,321 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brook in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 5,329 of them was named Brook, which outranked 95.9% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 50,097 of them was named Brook, which outranked 79.3% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,102Usman39
- #2,102Woodrow39
- #2,102Yehoshua39
- #2,140Brook38
- #2,140Amador38
- #2,140Andrei38
- #2,140Aris38
- #2,178Amado37
- #2,178Amer37
- #2,178Ashanti37
Tied with 37 names at #2,140; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.