Brooker
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brooker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and. (i) see Broker . The MED notes that the -ocould be long.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K
- CACanada≈1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,979 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and. (i) see Broker . The MED notes that the -ocould be long. (ii) locative name sometimes perhaps denoting a ‘dweller by the brook’, from an agent derivative of Middle English brok. William le Broker, 1332 in Subsidy Rolls (Sussex), was probably a descendant of Anger atte Broke, 1296 Subsidy Rolls (Sussex). Compare Brook .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brooker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,979 | 1 in 67K | 5K | Brooker | 330 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Brooker | 205 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Brooker | 148 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Brooker | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 1 | Brooker | 111 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Brooker | 70 |
| IE Ireland | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Brooker | 16 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 31 | 1 in 3.3K | 31 | — | 3 |
4,979 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bertram Brookerb. 1888CABritish artist (1888-1955)
- James Brookerb. 1902USAmerican pole vaulter
- Charles Brookerb. 1932CACanadian ice hockey player (1932–2020)
- Murray Ian Hill Brookerb. 1934AUAustralian botanist (1934-2016)
- Gary Brookerb. 1945GBEnglish singer, composer and pianist (1945–2022)
- Richard Brookerb. 1954GBBritish actor and stuntman (1954-2013)
- Will Brookerb. 1970GBfilm and television scholar
- Charlie Brookerb. 1971GBjournalist, broadcaster and writer from England
- Alex Brookerb. 1984GBBritish television presenter and sports journalist
- Greg BrookerUSAmerican screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5K | #6,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #6,973 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 31 | #231 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brooker mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and. (i) see Broker . The MED notes that the -ocould be long. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How common is the name Brooker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,979 people named Brooker in 2010, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- In which country does Brooker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Brooker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brooker.
- Where is Brooker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Brooker is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brookerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brooker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.