Brooks
Brooks reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 64, and has been recorded 59,639 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 64th. About 56,000 Brookses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brooks boys named Brooks
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 59,639
- Estimated living today
- 56,000
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 64th
- Rank in 2025
- 64th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,693 / 57,946
How old the living Brookses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 59,639 babies given the name since 1880, about 56,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 45,000 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Brookss
- Brooks Wackerman (born 1977)American drummer
- Brooks Koepka (born 1990)American professional golfer
- Brooks Orpik (born 1980)American ice hockey player
- Brooks Wheelan (born 1986)American comedian
- Brooks Adams (1848–1927)American political writer
- Brooks Robinson (1937–2023)American baseball player
- Brooks Macek (born 1992)German ice hockey player
- Brooks Lennon (born 1997)American soccer player
People named Brooks with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brooks is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brooks is most concentrated in Utah (3.6×), Idaho (2.2×), North Dakota (2.1×), South Dakota (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Brooks peaked:
Brooks elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Brooks | 251 | 585th |
| Scotland boys | Brooks | 61 | 227th |
| Ireland boys | Brooks | 6 | 755th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Brooks | 4 | 344th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Brooks against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.