Roche
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Roche has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1959, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.
Babies named Roche, 1982
1 in 585,000
Roche over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Roche over time
In 1997, Roche went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Roche?
Roche had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1982
- 1 in 585,000
- 6 of 3,507,638 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 302,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1982
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 405,219 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Roche sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 405,219 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roche. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Roches were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Roche was born before 1959 — so the typical Roche is around 66 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 26
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (14).
Is Roche 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1959 (9)
- Years since peak
- 66
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Roche
Roche is not the most common spelling — Royce is, with 18.8% against Roche'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.
Roche around the world
Where Roche 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 & Wales1998–2006#5,061in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Roche by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Roche
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Roche
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.