Brooke

At the 2020 census, 4,739 Americans bore the surname Brooke — 6,827th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 63,100.

By the numbers

People: 4,739
Rank: 6,827th
How common: 1 in 63,100
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Brooke

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)English poet
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963)British Field Marshal
Edward Brooke (1919–2015)American politician from Massachusetts
James Brooke (1803–1868)rajah of Sarawak
Ally Brooke (born 1993)American singer
Ashlynn Brooke (born 1985)American pornographic actress
Hillary Brooke (1914–1999)American film actress
Frances Brooke (1724–1789)English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator

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

Surnames like Brooke

Also a first name

Brooke has been given to 200,521 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1996. 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.