How popular is “Brook” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brook” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brook” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brook” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brook” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brook” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brook” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brook” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1915	5	0.000002729		5	-100%
1916	6	0.000003102		6	-100%
1918	6	0.000002764		6	-100%
1929	6	0.000002737		6	-100%
1931	5	0.000002376	5		100%
1932	8	0.000003789		8	-100%
1935	9	0.000004306		9	-100%
1937	6	0.000002816		6	-100%
1938	6	0.000002712		6	-100%
1939	7	0.000003177		7	-100%
1940	5	0.000002171		5	-100%
1941	10	0.000004104		10	-100%
1943	8	0.000002834		8	-100%
1944	7	0.000002602	7		100%
1945	10	0.000003769		10	-100%
1946	7	0.000002191		7	-100%
1947	12	0.000003331		12	-100%
1948	12	0.000003476	7	5	17%
1949	24	0.000006887	11	13	-8%
1950	19	0.000005423	9	10	-5%
1951	18	0.000004886	8	10	-11%
1952	22	0.000005793	9	13	-18%
1953	21	0.000005449	10	11	-5%
1954	27	0.000006783	13	14	-4%
1955	33	0.000008219	15	18	-9%
1956	36	0.000008731	14	22	-22%
1957	30	0.000007139	6	24	-60%
1958	23	0.000005564	8	15	-30%
1959	46	0.000011063	15	31	-35%
1960	51	0.000012278	12	39	-53%
1961	162	0.000039109	23	139	-72%
1962	103	0.000025524	18	85	-65%
1963	101	0.000025517	20	81	-60%
1964	89	0.000022893	26	63	-42%
1965	73	0.000020135	25	48	-32%
1966	118	0.00003395	55	63	-7%
1967	89	0.000026216	38	51	-15%
1968	119	0.000035224	53	66	-11%
1969	112	0.000032227	38	74	-32%
1970	187	0.000051851	75	112	-20%
1971	226	0.000065844	108	118	-4%
1972	217	0.000069042	131	86	21%
1973	206	0.000068282	134	72	30%
1974	257	0.00008454	162	95	26%
1975	269	0.000089091	173	96	29%
1976	345	0.0001137	242	103	40%
1977	351	0.000110499	259	92	48%
1978	326	0.000102714	261	65	60%
1979	404	0.000121431	313	91	55%
1980	496	0.000143997	405	91	63%
1981	432	0.000124878	368	64	70%
1982	321	0.000091506	259	62	61%
1983	222	0.0000641	157	65	41%
1984	231	0.000066213	173	58	50%
1985	213	0.000059679	162	51	52%
1986	203	0.000057069	151	52	49%
1987	202	0.000056024	157	45	55%
1988	248	0.000067117	195	53	57%
1989	266	0.000069191	214	52	61%
1990	278	0.000070336	225	53	62%
1991	294	0.000075476	236	58	61%
1992	351	0.000091376	312	39	78%
1993	385	0.000102114	338	47	76%
1994	394	0.000105981	345	49	75%
1995	368	0.000100487	330	38	79%
1996	352	0.000096513	311	41	77%
1997	334	0.000092119	287	47	72%
1998	367	0.000099777	342	25	86%
1999	305	0.000082569	283	22	86%
2000	312	0.000082542	279	33	79%
2001	270	0.000072127	252	18	87%
2002	212	0.00005671	194	18	83%
2003	256	0.000067327	243	13	90%
2004	205	0.000053652	183	22	79%
2005	204	0.000053058	185	19	81%
2006	212	0.000053587	195	17	84%
2007	234	0.000058534	213	21	82%
2008	187	0.000047575	168	19	80%
2009	153	0.000040051	139	14	82%
2010	136	0.000036799	114	22	68%
2011	142	0.000038821	125	17	76%
2012	137	0.000037459	119	18	74%
2013	120	0.000032916	104	16	73%
2014	76	0.000020505	61	15	61%
2015	84	0.000022697	71	13	69%
2016	95	0.000025895	83	12	75%
2017	71	0.000019854	57	14	61%
2018	56	0.000015928	42	14	50%
2019	71	0.000020456	51	20	44%
2020	56	0.000016764	42	14	50%
2021	53	0.000015644	36	17	36%
2022	43	0.00001271	32	11	49%
2023	51	0.000015402	34	17	33%
2024	36	0.000010816	22	14	22%

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