Brook
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brook is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: from Brook (Kent, Rutland), Brooke (Norfolk), or residence near a stream or water-meadow; first attested Eustace delbroc 1130 P (Nth).
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 398 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Brook (Kent, Rutland), Brooke (Norfolk), or residence near a stream or water-meadow; first attested Eustace delbroc 1130 P (Nth)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brook counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12K | Brook | 398 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Brook | 120 |
| AU Australia | — | 3 | Brook | 161 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4 | Brook | 215 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Brook | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 90 | — | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Brook is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, person who lives by a brook.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, kpélu
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Blessed one.
as a nameThe African book of names
In sco, To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brook Taylorb. 1685GBEnglish mathematician (1685–1731)
- Faith Brookb. 1922GBBritish actress (1922-2012)
- Peter Brookb. 1925GBEnglish theatre and film director (1925–2022)
- Claudio Brookb. 1927MXMexican actor (1927–1995)
- Michael Brookb. 1952CACanadian musician (born 1952)
- Jayne Brookb. 1960USAmerican actress
- Brook Leeb. 1971USAmerican beauty queen, Miss Universe 1997
- Diablo Codyb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter and author (born 1978)
- Kelly Brookb. 1979GBBritish actress and model
- Skylar Greyb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.5K | #6,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,910 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 90 | #29,749 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 90 | #29,517 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brook mean, and where does it come from?
- from Brook (Kent, Rutland), Brooke (Norfolk), or residence near a stream or water-meadow; first attested Eustace delbroc 1130 P (Nth) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Brook have the most bearers?
- Brook is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled brook.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brook”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.