Brooks

maleStatistical record

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

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

Brooks: Recorded since 2008, its highest recorded position is #227, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#227highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#4432
2011	#4647
2014	#3895
2016	#3079
2017	#2734
2018	#2259
2019	#1587
2020	#1314
2021	#1516
2022	#1179
2023	#1042
2024	#691

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 12 of the 17 years from 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #227 among boys in Scotland, #691 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2008–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #4432 among boys in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Brooks appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 185 births with the name.

Brooks across 2 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.

Brooks'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	#4432 (2008)	#691 (2024)	#691 (2024)	12 of 17	185 (2008–2024)	52 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#755 (2021)	#755 (2021)	#829 (2025)	2 of 5	6 (2021–2025)	3 (2021)

Brooks 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 Brooks in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	44	6 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	138	5 of 10	28

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 28 births a year.

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

Brooks 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 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #227 in Scotland in 2024.

Brooks'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	#691	52	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1042	28	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1179	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1516	16	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1314	19	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2259	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#227	18	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2008 and 2025, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #227, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 52 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 16 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Siomha · #228, 16y
Conaill · #229, 11y
Kirstin · #229, 18y
Shannan · #232, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Ralphie · #226, 23y
Arn · #229, 20y
Mylie · #229, 19y
Tymon · #231, 22y

Brooks was ranked #227 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Brooks 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 Brooks without appearing here.

Brooks moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3079 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2259 and #4749.
Isak Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #2052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2259 and #4749.
Anders Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2259 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1587 and #3937.
Gustav Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2259 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1587 and #3937.

Moved the opposite way to Brooks

Aaron Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 while Aaron went from #55 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 while Alan went from #226 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 while Alex went from #47 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 while Alexander went from #19 to #36.

Moved the same way as Brooks

Aksel Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 and Aksel from #3158 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 and Albie from #341 to #19.
Archie Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 and Archie from #31 to #10.
Arlo Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Brooks went from #4432 to #691 and Arlo from #567 to #15.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #227 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Brooks

Brooks at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Brooks across 2 official records

Brooks by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Brooks appears in

Popularity data

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Brooks at a glance

Brooks across 2 official records

Brooks by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Brooks appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Brooks

Brooks and the names beside it

Brooks moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Brooks

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