Last Name HOLBROOK

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Meaning Local: Of Holbrook. A parish in county Suffolk, six miles from Ipswich; also a parish in county Derby, five miles from Derby. Both places seem to have given rise to a surname. Evidently there is a locality called Holbrook in the West country. Holbrook has ramified very strongly in the Puritan settlements of America. In 1635 Thomas Holbrook of Broudway, aged 34, with his wife, two sons, and a daughter, embarked for New England.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 1,392 (2000 US census) 1,396 (1990 US census)
Count 23,317 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 92.82%, or 21643 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 4%, or 933 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.31%, or 72 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.48%, or 112 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.18%, or 275 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.21%, or 282 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest last names

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Shortest baby names

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