Meaning not yet researched.
Brook: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #503 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #503 in 1980; #4,373 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Brook in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,373 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #503.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Brook: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #503 in 1980 · most girls in one year: 405 (1980).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Brook, making it the 4,373rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,104 places from #5,477 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 23 girls named Brook in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #503, reached in 1980. That year also had the most girls given the name: 405. For comparison, it was #2,527 in 2015 and #3,693 in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Brook, making it the 5,896th most common boys’ name of the year, up 341 places from #6,237 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 14 boys named Brook in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #663, reached in 1961. That year also had the most boys given the name: 139. For comparison, it was #6,384 in 2015 and #2,452 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brook in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 14,021 US babies have been given the name, 76% of them girls and 24% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,428 babies named Brook.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 432 US girls were named Brook; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brooke (200,521 babies since 1880), Brooks (59,639 babies since 1880), Brock (43,615 babies since 1880) and Broc (2,522 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brook in the open dataset we use.
Brook is listed as a nickname for Brooklyn.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,373 | 15 | #5,896 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,477 | 14 | #6,237 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,207 | 17 | #5,496 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,395 | 11 | #7,339 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,034 | 17 | #5,373 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,556 | 14 | #6,024 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,134 | 20 | #4,829 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,625 | 14 | #6,082 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,909 | 14 | #6,098 |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,289 | 12 | #6,790 |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,527 | 13 | #6,384 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,788 | 15 | #5,770 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,919 | 16 | #5,431 |
| 2012 | 119 | #1,735 | 18 | #5,066 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,680 | 17 | #5,229 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,798 | 22 | #4,380 |
| 2009 | 139 | #1,613 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2008 | 168 | #1,417 | 19 | #4,922 |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,190 | 21 | #4,519 |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,235 | 17 | #5,103 |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,229 | 19 | #4,495 |
| 2004 | 183 | #1,216 | 22 | #4,027 |
| 2003 | 243 | #960 | 13 | #5,600 |
| 2002 | 194 | #1,094 | 18 | #4,343 |
| 2001 | 252 | #900 | 18 | #4,322 |
| 2000 | 279 | #811 | 33 | #2,747 |
| 1999 | 283 | #779 | 22 | #3,495 |
| 1998 | 342 | #675 | 25 | #3,104 |
| 1997 | 287 | #744 | 47 | #1,933 |
| 1996 | 311 | #695 | 41 | #2,077 |
| 1995 | 330 | #651 | 38 | #2,144 |
| 1994 | 345 | #635 | 49 | #1,777 |
| 1993 | 338 | #658 | 47 | #1,794 |
| 1992 | 312 | #693 | 39 | #2,007 |
| 1991 | 236 | #848 | 58 | #1,503 |
| 1990 | 225 | #870 | 53 | #1,568 |
| 1989 | 214 | #865 | 52 | #1,551 |
| 1988 | 195 | #897 | 53 | #1,451 |
| 1987 | 157 | #999 | 45 | #1,565 |
| 1986 | 151 | #1,013 | 52 | #1,365 |
| 1985 | 162 | #957 | 51 | #1,358 |
| 1984 | 173 | #875 | 58 | #1,199 |
| 1983 | 157 | #942 | 65 | #1,108 |
| 1982 | 259 | #679 | 62 | #1,165 |
| 1981 | 368 | #525 | 64 | #1,144 |
| 1980 | 405 | #503 | 91 | #938 |
| 1979 | 312 | #584 | 91 | #919 |
| 1978 | 261 | #632 | 65 | #1,080 |
| 1977 | 259 | #642 | 92 | #883 |
| 1976 | 242 | #637 | 103 | #825 |
| 1975 | 173 | #800 | 96 | #851 |
| 1974 | 162 | #825 | 95 | #825 |
| 1973 | 134 | #919 | 72 | #949 |
| 1972 | 131 | #939 | 86 | #869 |
| 1971 | 108 | #1,105 | 118 | #757 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,390 | 112 | #779 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,027 | 74 | #885 |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,575 | 66 | #884 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,906 | 51 | #1,020 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,492 | 63 | #916 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,413 | 48 | #1,069 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,415 | 63 | #960 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,790 | 81 | #844 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,934 | 85 | #823 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,553 | 139 | #663 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,716 | 39 | #1,252 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,118 | 31 | #1,417 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,551 | 15 | #2,105 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,437 | 24 | #1,635 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,198 | 22 | #1,683 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,987 | 18 | #1,851 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,176 | 14 | #2,121 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,721 | 11 | #2,408 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,837 | 13 | #2,163 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,054 | 10 | #2,515 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,693 | 10 | #2,452 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,206 | 13 | #2,134 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,239 | 5 | #3,738 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,259 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #2,946 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,268 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,755 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,352 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,508 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,861 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,220 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,214 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,551 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,877 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,603 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #3,780 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,554 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,898 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).