Brooks

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Brooks is ranked 67th among boys in 2024 (4,793 births). Its best rank was 67th, in 2024.

Rank in 2024: #67up 6 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4,7930.28% of boys
Peak year: 20244,793 births
Best rank: #67in 2024
Since 1880: 54,652people given the name

Babies named Brooks, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

53,047 boys have been named Brooks in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 4,793 births — 0.28% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2020s alone account for 41%. It has spent 142 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,605 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Brooks
1880s	53
1890s	83
1900s	129
1910s	487
1920s	645
1930s	545
1940s	701
1950s	981
1960s	1,116
1970s	1,392
1980s	2,824
1990s	2,375
2000s	3,528
2010s	16,253
2020s	21,935

In 2024, its biggest year

Brooks was the 67th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Brooks

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.