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Roch

Boys' name

Form of Rocco

Roch has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 28 recorded.

Babies named Roch, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roch: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rocco

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roch means

Roch is a form of Rocco.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Roch is used in French and Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʁɔk/ and /ˈrɔx/ for Roch.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Roch is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rocco.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Roch is pronounced /ʁɔk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 boys were recorded with the name Roch between 1927 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1957; its best national rank was #1,506 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 Roch?

Roch had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roch 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roch. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rochs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roch was born before 1959 — so the typical Roch is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
240
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Roch 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
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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 (28)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,506
1957

Spellings of Roch

Roch is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 36.5% against Roch's 0.02%.

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.

Roch around the world

Where Roch 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
    2008–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    1900–2025
    #837
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2004
    #2,269
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Roch 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
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Best rank ever
#1,506
1957
Peak year
1957
28 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roch

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

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Sibling names for Roch

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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