Brook
Brook is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 503rd, in 1980.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1980405 births
- Best rank
- #503in 1980
- Since 1931
- 13,973people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,597 girls have been named Brook in the United States since 1931, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 405 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 1990s alone account for 28%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Brook is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are boys (3,376), most of them born around 1961.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Brook | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 25 | |
| 1950s | 107 | |
| 1960s | 308 | |
| 1970s | 1,858 | |
| 1980s | 2,241 | |
| 1990s | 3,009 | |
| 2000s | 2,051 | |
| 2010s | 827 | |
| 2020s | 166 |
In 1980, its biggest year
Brook was the 503rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1980 were Jennifer, Amanda, Jessica, Melissa and Sarah. See all of 1980.
Names that rose and fell with Brook
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Akilahpeak 1993
- Jamaicapeak 1977
- Rebekahpeak 1996
- Araselipeak 1980
- Dionnapeak 1994
- Chenoapeak 1976
- Marisapeak 1995
- Chasidypeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.