Brookes
Brookes was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 152 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brookes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brookes?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,521, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1982, the peak
Brookes peaked in 1982, when 27 babies were given it (17 boys, #2,719 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #12,521 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #9,984 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,314 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #9,900 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #8,836 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,033 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #8,869 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #6,744 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,536 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,646 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,249 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,146 | 6 | #5,572 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,415 | 17 | #2,719 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,482 | 11 | #3,632 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,226 | 7 | #4,996 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,141 | 6 | #5,437 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Brookes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 152 Americans recorded as Brookes, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brookes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brookes, and how old are they?
An estimated 145 Americans named Brookes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 33 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 285 people named Brookes (109 women and girls, 176 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 132 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 59,791 babies since 1880, Brookes is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,965 babies recorded by SSA was a Brookes (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Brookes and names like it
- Compare Brookes and BrooksBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrookes peaked in 1982.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Brookes.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brookes alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.