girls:
44 births since 1979
#5672 (1st percentile)
boys:
108 births since 1979
#4478 (2nd percentile)
overall:
152 births since 1979
#7587 (2nd percentile)
The name Brookes is the #7,587 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 152 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,478 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 108 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,672 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1979.
Brookes first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 . Birth data for Brookes is available in 16 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023 (15 years for boys and 6 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 Brookes has been given predominantly to boys, with 71.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Brookes were boys. Interestingly, until around 1980, the name was more popular for girls (53.8% girls from 1979 to 1979), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (73.4% boys from 1980 to 2023).
For boys, Brookes reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #679) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Brookes ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 30.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brookes reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #788) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brookes".
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