Given name & surname
Brookie
“from the running stream”
Brookie is a variant of Brook. One English interpretation is “from the running stream.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brookie is a variant of Brook. One English interpretation is “from the running stream.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Brookie is a variant of Brook. An origin associated with Brook is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brookie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 542
- 7 boys · 535 girls
- Most popular year
- 1947
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1947. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 379 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 74,602 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brookie’s family of names
Brookie has a related form in Brook.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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