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Roque

#6,078 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Rocco

Roque has been given to 2,583 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #6,078 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Roque, 2025

1 in 221,000

Roque over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roque: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rocco

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roque means

Roque is a form of Rocco.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Roque is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rocco.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Roque is pronounced /ˈʁɔ.ki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,583 boys were recorded with the name Roque between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,426 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,826 in 2020 to #6,078 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,212 in 2015 to #6,078 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 Roque?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,078
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roque 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roque. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roques were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roque was born before 1987 — so the typical Roque is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,218
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (401).

Is Roque 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
−1,670
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,252
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,866
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.8%
Peak was 2004 (54)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,426
1977

Spellings of Roque

Roque is not the most common spelling — Josue is, with 54.4% against Roque's 2.4%.

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 Roque is used

Across 1910–2025, Roque was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 45,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

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

Roque around the world

Where Roque 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
    2008–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1963–1982
    #2,184
    in 1982

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

Notable people named Roque

People whose public names include Roque, 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.

Roque in other languages

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

RocRochRoccoRochusRokRókus

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

Roque by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,078
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,252
Best rank ever
#1,426
1977
Peak year
2004
54 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,583
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Roque

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

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Names with a curve like Roque

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

CelsoMaximinoDemetrioLauroCarlinBaltazarServandoGeronimoLavellMarcialArtemioHomero

Sibling names for Roque

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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