Brook

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Brook: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Brook: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #527 in 2000, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#527highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#1958
1998	#2165
1999	#1261
2000	#1313
2001	#1617
2002	#1245
2003	#1472
2004	#1072
2005	#951
2006	#1201
2007	#987
2008	#1206
2009	#1139
2010	#1389
2011	#1665
2012	#1893
2013	#2176
2014	#2203
2015	#4736
2016	#3609
2017	#4763
2018	#5666
2019	#5591
2021	#4634
2022	#5669
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2010: #910 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1389 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #527 among boys in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Brook appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 546 births with the name.

Brook across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Brook's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#898 (1996)	#527 (2000)	#2443 (2024)	29 of 29	546 (1996–2024)	46 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#951 (2005)	#4709 (2023)	27 of 28	352 (1996–2023)	30 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#705 (2007)	#705 (2007)	#910 (2010)	3 of 4	10 (2007–2010)	4 (2007)

Brook by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Brook in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	66	4 of 10	17
2000sbusiest	329	10 of 10	33
2010s	119	10 of 10	12
2020s	32	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 33 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Brook appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #527 in England and Wales in 2000.

Brook's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1923	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1669	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1665	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1788	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1302	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1206	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#916	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#902	28	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1201	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#814	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#951	28	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#590	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#555	46	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#558	41	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#710	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#668	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#527	37	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#679	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1958	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1052	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #527, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bronwen · #339, 31y
Bronwyn · #49, 70y
Brooke · #13, 51y
Brooklyn · #61, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anaiya · #527, 25y
Enrico · #527, 29y
Mazin · #527, 27y
Pranav · #527, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Enrico · #527, 29y
Mazin · #527, 27y
Obed · #527, 20y
Pranav · #527, 29y

Brook was ranked #527 in England and Wales · Boys in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Brook and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Brook without appearing here.

Brook moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #4991.
Courtney Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3449 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Brook

Tove Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4763 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3609 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2201.
Maren Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4763 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #3518.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #2706.

Moved the opposite way to Brook

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Brook

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brook went from #898 to #2443 and Alexander from #14 to #36.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #527 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Brook

Brook at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brook across 3 official records

Brook by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Brook appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Brook at a glance

Brook across 3 official records

Brook by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Brook appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Brook and the names beside it

Brook moved ahead of

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