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Jock

Boys' name

Form of Jack

Jock has been given to 1,090 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Jock, 2009

1 in 637,000

Jock over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jock: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jack

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jock means

Jock is a form of Jack.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jock is used in Scottish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɑk/ and /ˈd͡ʒɒk/ for Jock.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jock → Jack → Jacques → Ἰάκωβος. The family’s proposed meaning is “heel of the foot”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements ‘āqḗḇ.

Origin, language, and formation

Jock is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jack.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jock is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɑk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,090 boys were recorded with the name Jock between 1916 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1957; its best national rank was #1,142 in 1957.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jock?

Jock had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 331,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jock sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jock. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jocks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jock was born before 1960 — so the typical Jock is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
849
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (288).

Is Jock rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (46)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,142
1957

Spellings of Jock

Jock is not the most common spelling — John is, with 64.9% against Jock's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jock is used

Across 1910–2025, Jock was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 815,269 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jock has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jock around the world

Where Jock ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2006–2021
    #533
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1944–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jock by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,142
1957
Peak year
1957
46 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
1,090
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jock

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jock

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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