Brooks

Meaning: Small stream
Origin: Variant of Brook · English nature name (from English (topographic surname, from the noun brook))

Boy's name · #64 in the US (2025) · Trending

98% boys · 2% girls — Brooks is also given to girls: 88 in 2025, about 1 in 65 in recent years. Brooks →

Popularity over time

Brooks is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it reached #64 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 4,900 boys given the name last year. Roughly 58,000 have carried it all-time.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#186 in New Zealand (2025) · #255 in Scotland (2025) · #353 in N. Ireland (2025) · #586 in England & Wales (2025) · #870 in Ireland (2025) · #71 in Canada (2024).

Famous Brookses

Brooks Wackerman — American drummer
Brooks Koepka — American professional golfer (born 1990)
Brooks Orpik — American ice hockey player
Brooks Wheelan — American comedian
Brooks Adams — American political writer (1848–1927)

In stories & tradition

Brooks — Grey Gardens (musical stage work)

What Brookses become

Among 139 notable people named Brooks:

Sports figures appear 2.22× more often than among typical names — e.g. Brooks Koepka, American professional golfer (born 1990).

Similar names: Cooper · Brody · Beckett · Archer · Jax · Colter

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