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 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 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.
Where Brook is popular in 1931
No state had 5 or more girls named Brook in 1931, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Brook
- 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 1931
Top girls' names in 1931
More about 1931
girls
1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 212,946 of them was named Brook, which outranked 13.0% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 648 names at #4,331; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.