Brook vs Portage

Brook

name
  • A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States. 

  • A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR0644). 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks. 

  • A hamlet in Albury parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0646). 

  • A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”). 

  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke. 

  • A village in Brighstone parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ3983). 

  • A hamlet in Witley parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9338). 

  • A hamlet in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2609) 

  • A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook. 

Portage

name
  • A city in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana. 

  • A town in Livingston County, New York. 

  • A ghost town and former settlement in Alaska, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1964. 

  • A home rule borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. 

  • A settlement in Prince Edward Island, Canada. 

  • A village in Wood County, Ohio. 

  • A city in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. 

  • A city, the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin. 

  • A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. 

  • A number of townships in the United States, listed under Portage Township. 

  • A small town in Box Elder County, Utah, named after Portage County in Ohio. 

How often have the words Brook and Portage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )