Brooke
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning small stream.
How Brooke has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #150 |
| 2016 | #173 |
| 2017 | #191 |
| 2018 | #201 |
| 2019 | #211 |
| 2020 | #236 |
| 2021 | #262 |
| 2022 | #269 |
| 2023 | #299 |
| 2024 | #308 |
| 2025 | #313 |
Brooke by the numbers
In 2025, 121 babies in England and Wales were named Brooke. In the US, 1,616 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 6,725 babies in 1996, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 1995, about 1 in 300 American girls born that year was called Brooke.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brooke. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean water
Like Brooke, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Mayaillusion; mother; water1,259 in England and Wales (2025)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)
- Kendraclear water; from a place name734 in the US (2017)
- Rosemarydew of the sea; the herb rosemary687 in the US (2017)
- Raynerain or counsel; a modern respelling of Raine368 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Brooke
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