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Roc

#9,524 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Rocco

Roc has been given to 287 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #9,524 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Roc, 2025

1 in 414,000

Roc 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roc: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rocco

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roc means

Roc is a form of Rocco.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Roc → Rocco. The family’s meaning is “crow”, recorded in English with the source elements hruoh.

Origin, language, and formation

Roc is used in Catalan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rocco.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Roc is pronounced [ˈro̞k].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 287 boys were recorded with the name Roc between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,357 in 1957.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,376 in 2020 to #9,524 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,579 in 2015 to #9,524 in 2025.

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 Roc?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,524
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roc 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rocs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roc was born before 2005 — so the typical Roc is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Roc 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
+2,532
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+852
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−945
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2010 (14)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,357
1957

Where Roc is used

Across 1910–2025, Roc was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 917,511 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Roc has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roc around the world

Where Roc 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
    2006–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • France
    2015–2016
    #5,469
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1983–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Roc by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 852
Best rank ever
#2,357
1957
Peak year
2010
14 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
287
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Roc

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

RockoRochRocketRoczenRockRocioRockerRocklinRocklandRockneRockeRockfordRockeyRockieRocheRockneyRochelleRocciRochellBrocRockwellRockyRoccoRochester

Sibling names for Roc

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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