girls:
196.5k births since 1934
#201 (96th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1914
#2788 (39th percentile)
overall:
198.5k births since 1914
#394 (95th percentile)
The name Brooke is the #394 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 198,534 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 94.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #201 (96.5% percentile) for all time with 196,510 births since 1934. For boys, it ranks #2,788 (39.2% percentile) for all time with 2,024 births since 1914.
Brooke first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1934 for girls). Birth data for Brooke is available in 104 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 88 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brooke has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1940, the name was more popular for boys (83.9% boys from 1914 to 1939), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (99.1% girls from 1940 to 2023).
For girls, Brooke reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 95.5% percentile (ranked #44) with 2,749 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3,507 births per million (ranked 94.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Brooke ranks #283 for girls (70.2% percentile) with 590 births per million, which is 16.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Brooke reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #613) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 35 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brooke".
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Our model is 91.7% confident that Brooke is pronounced as brook, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is brook, at 8.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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