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Roko

Boys' name

Form of Rocco

Roko has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2012, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Roko, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roko: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rocco

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roko means

Roko is a form of Rocco.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Roko is used in Croatian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Roko is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rocco.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 boys were recorded with the name Roko between 2009 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2012; its best national rank was #9,525 in 2012.

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 Roko?

Roko 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 Roko 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 Roko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rokos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roko was born before 2016 — so the typical Roko is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
69
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Roko 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 2012 (8)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,525
2012

Spellings of Roko

Roko is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 54.1% against Roko'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.

Roko around the world

Where Roko 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
    2012–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Roko 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
#9,525
2012
Peak year
2012
8 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roko

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

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Sibling names for Roko

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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