Boy · English
Brooks
Say it: BRUUKS
Meaning
From an English surname for someone living by a brook.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used occasionally as a given name since the 19th century and more widely from the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 36,284 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 443 boys
- 3,922 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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