Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brooke” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brooke” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brooke” 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 “Brooke” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brooke” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brooke” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 7 10 -18%
1935 18 0.000008613 5 13 -44%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1938 15 0.000006779 8 7 7%
1939 21 0.000009531 9 12 -14%
1940 34 0.000014765 24 10 41%
1941 54 0.000022164 35 19 30%
1942 67 0.000024526 46 21 37%
1943 55 0.000019486 30 25 9%
1944 51 0.000018959 40 11 57%
1945 58 0.000021863 40 18 38%
1946 53 0.000016587 43 10 62%
1947 59 0.000016378 41 18 39%
1948 72 0.000020854 42 30 17%
1949 84 0.000024105 67 17 60%
1950 69 0.000019695 54 15 57%
1951 67 0.000018188 51 16 52%
1952 74 0.000019484 51 23 38%
1953 152 0.000039443 133 19 75%
1954 124 0.00003115 101 23 63%
1955 86 0.000021419 67 19 56%
1956 104 0.000025224 85 19 63%
1957 93 0.000022132 67 26 44%
1958 100 0.00002419 68 32 36%
1959 98 0.000023569 73 25 49%
1960 139 0.000033463 102 37 47%
1961 171 0.000041281 120 51 40%
1962 172 0.000042623 132 40 53%
1963 182 0.00004598 149 33 64%
1964 167 0.000042957 126 41 51%
1965 176 0.000048546 146 30 66%
1966 321 0.000092357 286 35 78%
1967 304 0.000089546 268 36 76%
1968 363 0.000107447 326 37 80%
1969 446 0.000128333 403 43 81%
1970 819 0.000227089 759 60 85%
1971 774 0.000225501 729 45 88%
1972 784 0.000249444 736 48 88%
1973 827 0.000274124 771 56 86%
1974 1004 0.000330263 964 40 92%
1975 1231 0.000407698 1182 49 92%
1976 1503 0.000495337 1463 40 95%
1977 1911 0.000601607 1871 40 96%
1978 2576 0.000811627 2533 43 97%
1979 3555 0.00106853 3506 49 97%
1980 5003 0.001452458 4951 52 98%
1981 5372 0.001552882 5330 42 98%
1982 3175 0.000905084 3143 32 98%
1983 2890 0.000834455 2862 28 98%
1984 2775 0.000795413 2749 26 98%
1985 2741 0.000767979 2727 14 99%
1986 2719 0.000764391 2698 21 98%
1987 2973 0.000824547 2955 18 99%
1988 3451 0.000933954 3416 35 98%
1989 4170 0.001084681 4148 22 99%
1990 5016 0.001269077 4990 26 99%
1991 5574 0.001430968 5551 23 99%
1992 5793 0.001508094 5771 22 99%
1993 6182 0.001639667 6161 21 99%
1994 5994 0.001612308 5973 21 99%
1995 6393 0.001745694 6377 16 99%
1996 6749 0.001850463 6724 25 99%
1997 6682 0.00184293 6671 11 100%
1998 6361 0.001729375 6345 16 99%
1999 6081 0.001646242 6067 14 100%
2000 5655 0.00149607 5642 13 100%
2001 5222 0.001394992 5213 9 100%
2002 5346 0.001430065 5338 8 100%
2003 5981 0.001572987 5971 10 100%
2004 5734 0.001500685 5712 22 99%
2005 5582 0.001451814 5571 11 100%
2006 5756 0.001454936 5747 9 100%
2007 5527 0.001382551 5508 19 99%
2008 5195 0.001321659 5186 9 100%
2009 4798 0.001255963 4798 100%
2010 3711 0.001004129 3705 6 100%
2011 3371 0.000921594 3371 100%
2012 2975 0.000813427 2975 100%
2013 2754 0.000755417 2754 100%
2014 2396 0.000646454 2390 6 99%
2015 2150 0.000580938 2150 100%
2016 1871 0.00050999 1871 100%
2017 1626 0.000454673 1619 7 99%
2018 1533 0.00043602 1527 6 99%
2019 1445 0.000416315 1440 5 99%
2020 1262 0.000377779 1262 100%
2021 1186 0.000350064 1186 100%
2022 1181 0.000349084 1181 100%
2023 1033 0.000311972 1033 100%
2024 999 0.000300135 999 100%

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