Brooke Girl
How popular is Brooke?
#313 girl name in 2025
972 baby girls were named Brooke in the US in 2025, making it the 313th most popular girl name.
Brooke popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #313 for girls (▼ 5 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 972 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-55% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #150 in 2015, #236 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1996 (6,724 girls) |
| Highest rank | #43 in 2003 |
| First recorded | 1934 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.7% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Brooke counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Brooke family of names ranked #326 for girls in 2025 (#324 the year before), with 1,004 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Brooke | 972 | 97% |
| Brook | 32 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Brooke is most popular
Babies named Brooke per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Hampshire: 3.2 per 1,000 (59 girls)
- Massachusetts: 2.4 per 1,000 (287 girls)
- Connecticut: 2.3 per 1,000 (135 girls)
- Rhode Island: 2.1 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- District of Columbia: 1.7 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Brooke by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 29 | #2,920 |
| 1940s | 408 | #1,103 |
| 1950s | 750 | #797 |
| 1960s | 2,058 | #480 |
| 1970s | 14,512 | #85 |
| 1980s | 34,977 | #52 |
| 1990s | 60,630 | #45 |
| 2000s | 54,686 | #43 |
| 2010s | 23,808 | #73 |
| 2020s | 6,633 | #236 |
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Questions
- Is Brooke a boy or girl name?
- Brooke is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Brooke were girls.
- How popular is the name Brooke?
- 972 baby girls were named Brooke in the US in 2025, making it the 313th most popular girl name.
- When was Brooke most popular?
- Brooke peaked in 1996, when 6,724 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #43 in 2003.
- How many people are named Brooke?
- 200,521 babies have been named Brooke in the US since 1880. We estimate about 196,204 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 29.
- Where is Brooke most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Brooke was most common in New Hampshire, at 3.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.