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brooks Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the possessive case of Brook (i.e. ‘of the brook’).
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Brucks.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of brooks Families in the US in 1920
Number of brooks families
 1028-2053
 343-1027		 1-342
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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