Brooke

What Brooke means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brooke yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 6,724 babies; 972 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brooke?

US: Falling: down from #150 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #107 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 6,724 girls got the name (#45 that year). First in the US records in 1934.

How common

• About 1 in 1,654 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,093 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 895 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NH (2.9 per 1,000 girls), DE (2.66 per 1,000 girls), MA (2.25 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Brooke is #313 in the US and #353 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brooke were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Brook32 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Brook

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Brooke

Girls

• Paige#346possibly “servant”^*
• Haley#861“hay field”^*
• Leslie#712“garden of hollies”^*
• Taylor#403From the word “tailor”^*
• Kimberly#302Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #108 in 2015, #302 in 2025
• Shelby#649Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1991, with 10,220 babies; 444 in 2025

For a brother

• Devin#548“fortuneteller”^*
• Tyler#219“tiler”^*
• Brandon#261“broom shrub + hill, dune”^*
• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Dillon#929Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1992, with 5,062 babies; 253 in 2025
• Kyle#508“narrows”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brooke’s. Rank is US 2025.