Brook

At the 2020 census, 4,025 Americans bore the surname Brook — 7,910th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 74,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,025
Rank: 7,910th
How common: 1 in 74,300
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from the noun brook.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brook described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.4%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Brook

Peter Brook (1925–2022)English theatre and film director
Kelly Brook (born 1979)British actress and model
Clive Brook (1887–1974)British actor
Jayne Brook (born 1960)American actress
Michael Brook (born 1952)Canadian musician
Eric Brook (1907–1965)English footballer
Kell Brook (born 1986)boxer
Claudio Brook (1927–1995)Mexican actor

People named Brook with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Brook

Also a first name

Brook has been given to 14,021 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 1980. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.