Brook
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning a small stream.
Brook by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Brook. In the US, 71 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 405 babies in 1980, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brook. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Brook
Names that are said the same way as Brook, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Bruk8 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean water
Like Brook, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Maxwellgreat spring; place name3,118 in the US (2017)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Beckettbee keeper or stream; a surname used as a given name1,763 in the US (2017)
- Beckhamhomestead with a stream1,280 in the US (2017)
- Wadeto go or ford across water899 in the US (2017)
- Moisesdrawn from the water; Spanish variant of Moses745 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Brook
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