Holbrook

Holbrook is the 1,507th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,103 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,900.

By the numbers

People: 23,103
Rank: 1,507th
How common: 1 in 12,900
Per 100,000: 7.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hol (“hole; hollow, sunken”) + brōc (“stream, brook”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Holbrook

Hal Holbrook (1925–2021)American actor
Boyd Holbrook (born 1981)American actor and former model
John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871)American zoologist

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

Surnames like Holbrook

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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.