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Rock

#5,564 in 2025Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Rock has been given to 2,681 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #5,564 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 155 recorded.

Babies named Rock, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rock: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Rock means

Rock is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an English surname, from the noun rock.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rock (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rock is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Rock is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,681 boys were recorded with the name Rock between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 1957; its best national rank was #617 in 1957.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,825 in 2020 to #5,564 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,668 in 2015 to #5,564 in 2025.

How common is Rock?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,564
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rock 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rock. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rocks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rock was born before 1963 — so the typical Rock is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (908).

Is Rock 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
−547
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−739
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,896
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.0%
Peak was 1957 (155)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#617
1957

Spellings of Rock

Rock is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 36.3% against Rock's 0.13%.

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 Rock is used

Across 1910–2025, Rock was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 179,400 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Utah1 in 100,000

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

Rock around the world

Where Rock 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
    2002–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    1913–2019
    #5,501
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Rock

People whose public names include Rock, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rock in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rock. Linked forms have their own page here.

RocRochStenRockeRockyRockwellRokRrok

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rock by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,564
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 739
Best rank ever
#617
1957
Peak year
1957
155 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,681
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Rock

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

RockoRocRockyDockRoccoRoczenRockwellJockRocketRochRockieRockeyRocioRockfordRockneBrockRockerRocklinEnockRocklandBraddockRockeLockRochelle

Names with a curve like Rock

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rock, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RandRandelKimballAudieWaydeSkipFaronChristopheCrisButchDavyRickie

Sibling names for Rock

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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