Name meaning & stats
Brooks
Brooks means “of the brook”. 57,679 US babies since 1940, peak 2025.
What it means
“of the brook”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2025
57,679 US babies were named Brooks between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Brooks (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Brooks is the main spelling
- Brooks 99%
- Brookes <1%
- Broox <1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2025)