First name origins & meanings:
- Old English: Stream
- Old English: Stream; brook
First name variations: Brooks, Brookes, Brookie, Burne, Bhrooke, Brookee, Brookelle, Brookia, Brook, Brooks, Brookes, Brooc, Brooker, Brookin, Brook Last name origins & meanings:
- English: variant spelling of Brook, which preserves a trace
of the Old English dative singular case, originally used after a
preposition (e.g. ‘at the brook’).
- In 1650, Robert and Mary Mainwaring Brooke brought ten children and
a number of servants with them from England to MD, where Robert became
governor. Although the fourteen known contemporary Brooke immigrants
in VA included Robert’s brothers Richard and Humphrey, the
relationships of the others are unknown. Brooke family memorials
remain in the Anglican church at Whitchurch, Hampshire, England.
Famous people with this first name:
Brooke Burke,
Brooke Shields Famous people who gave their babies this name:
Billy Baldwin,
Hulk Hogan,
Chynna Phillips,
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