First name origins & meanings:
- Old English: Stream
- Old English: Stream; brook
First name variations: Brooke, Brooks, Brookes, Brookie, Burne, Bhrooke, Brookee, Brookelle, Brookia, Brooke, Brooks, Brookes, Brooc, Brooker, Brookin Last name origins & meanings:
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or
stream, from Middle Englisk brook, Old English brōc
‘brook’, ‘stream’.
- North German and Dutch: topographic name for
someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, from Low German
brook, Dutch broek (cognate with German Bruch and
Old English brōc; see 1).
- Americanized spelling of
German and Jewish Bruck or German Bruch.
This name appears in the following lists:
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