Category:Westbrook

The English surname "Westbrook" is local in origin, being one of those names derived from the place where a person once lived or owned land. In this case, it is derived from the place name "Westbrook" of which there places so named in Surrey, Berkshire, Devon, and Kent. The place name means "western brook" or "west of the brook" and thus would describe the position of the village or parish in relation to the brook. The surname simply denotes one whose place of residence Westbrook was.

Early instances of the name include a reference to Reginald de Westbroc in the Feel of Fines for Kent in 1255 and John de Westbroke in the Subsidy Rolls for Cambridgeshire in 1327. Edmund Westbrook appears in the Feel of Fines for Essex in 1440 while one Mark Westbrooke, of Surrey, was registered at the University of Oxford in 1584. There are about twenty-thousand bearers of the name in the United States today.

Notes (http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk/surnames/WESTBROOK/)
 * Total is the total number of people with that surname.
 * Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
 * Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
 * Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.