Brooke
Brooke is ranked 308th among girls in 2024 (999 births). Its best rank was 43rd, in 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- #308down 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9990.06% of girls
- Peak year
- 19966,724 births
- Best rank
- #43in 2003
- Since 1934
- 199,542people given the name
The story in the numbers
197,517 girls have been named Brooke in the United States since 1934, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 6,724 births — 0.38% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 140 → 308).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 31%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 31 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,025 boys have also been given it, 1.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Brooke | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 29 | |
| 1940s | 408 | |
| 1950s | 750 | |
| 1960s | 2,058 | |
| 1970s | 14,514 | |
| 1980s | 34,979 | |
| 1990s | 60,630 | |
| 2000s | 54,686 | |
| 2010s | 23,802 | |
| 2020s | 5,661 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Brooke was the 45th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1996 were Emily, Jessica, Ashley, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Brooke
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shaylapeak 1999
- Rebekapeak 1991
- Keyonnapeak 1995
- Yajairapeak 2005
- Carlypeak 1995
- Shalynnpeak 1995
- Fabiolapeak 1995
- Karahpeak 2000
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.