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Rockwell

#1,940 in 2025Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Rockwell has been given to 1,801 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #1,940 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 110 recorded.

Babies named Rockwell, 2025

1 in 41,400

Rockwell over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rockwell: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Rockwell means

Rockwell is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

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

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,801 boys were recorded with the name Rockwell between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 110 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,516 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,589 in 2020 to #1,940 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,714 in 2015 to #1,940 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 Rockwell?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,940
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rockwell 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rockwell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rockwells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rockwell was born before 2015 — so the typical Rockwell is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,645
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (714).

Is Rockwell 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
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−351
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−226
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2017 (110)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,516
2017

Spellings of Rockwell

Rockwell is the most-used spelling, taking 56.1% of the 3,212 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Rockwell56.1%1,801
  • Roswell43.9%1,411

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 Rockwell is used

Across 2016–2025, Rockwell was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 855 boys, against 1 in 16,759 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

1117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 855
  2. 2Arizona1 in 11,111
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 33,333
  5. 5Oregon1 in 33,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Maryland1 in 50,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 50,000

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.

Rockwell around the world

Where Rockwell 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
    2018–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rockwell by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,940
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 351
Best rank ever
#1,516
2017
Peak year
2017
110 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,801
Count in 2025
80

Names similar to Rockwell

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

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Sibling names for Rockwell

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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