Holbrook is a boy's name of English origin meaning “hole; hollow, sunken and stream, brook.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Holbrook at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
English & American
Meaning
“hole; hollow, sunken and stream, brook”
About the name Holbrook
Holbrook belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “hole; hollow, sunken and stream, brook” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Holbrook first appears in Social Security records in 2015. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #12772 in 2020, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 10 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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