The BROOKS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	240,751	77	0.089	892
United States (1880 census)	54,817	68	0.11	1,096
Change since 1880	+185934	-9	-0.021	-204
Other Countries
Australia	8,108	153	0.05	496
United Kingdom	36,160	128	0.079	787

Top States for BROOKS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	18,525	109	0.089	888
California	15,232	180	0.045	450
Florida	14,658	83	0.092	917
Georgia	12,812	49	0.157	1,565
North Carolina	11,724	60	0.146	1,457
Top States for BROOKS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	8,638	51	0.194	1,942
Tennessee	10,061	53	0.177	1,768
Washington DC	930	42	0.163	1,626
Georgia	12,812	49	0.157	1,565
Virginia	10,846	44	0.153	1,532

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BROOKS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BROOKS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BROOKS in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BROOKS by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BROOKS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BROOKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BROOKS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BROOKS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	987	0.41
White (Caucasian)	150,999	62.72
Black/African American	78,653	32.67
Mixed Race	4,406	1.83
White (Hispanic)	3,900	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	1,806	0.75

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BROOKS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to BROOKS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BROOKS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.