The name Brooks is of English origin. It comes from the Old English word ‘brōc’ meaning ‘stream’ or ‘brook’ – a small stream of water. It’s a surname which has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
Brooks is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Brooks isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Brooks ranks 152. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 14 were named Brooks. In the entire USA, approximately 38,364 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Brooks. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Brooks is of English origin. It comes from the Old English word ‘brōc’ meaning ‘stream’ or ‘brook’ – a small stream of water. It’s a surname which has been used as a given name since the 19th century.
The Brooks mango... is a late-season mango cultivar, that originated in south Florida in 1916. Since the tree bears fruit late in the season, the variety is also called Brooks Late.
#76 - this is the highest rank Brooks has ever achieved. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of recording. The last time Brooks reached this top spot was in 2022 when 4,404 newborn boys were given this name. But as our statistics show, Brooks hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1893, not a single newborn or less than 5 were named Brooks (a name is only included in the official statistics if it has been given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Brooks has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well into our time today. From zero to hero - even though it took a while for Brooks to really catch on, it has become a very popular name.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Brooks was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Brooks may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Brooks is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,235 men in Utah is called Brooks. In total, that’s 1,103 people who feel addressed when the name Brooks is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #279 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Brooks as the answer a total of 38,364 times. This places Brooks at #504 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Brooks as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Brooks is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Brooks and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Brooks, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Rocket
Orange
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Koala
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Brooks
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Brooks sounds like this:
