Brock
Brock was given to 306 boys in 2025, #810 among boys’ names; 43,615 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 41,600 Americans named Brock and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brock by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brock mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brock is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/bɹɑk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brock?
#810 among boys’ names, 2025
Brock fell from #449 in 2015 to #810 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.35 to 0.18 per 1,000.
1,378 babies in 2003, the peak
Brock peaked in 2003, when 1,378 boys were given it, #243 among boys’ names. The 306 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 306 | #810 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 383 | #702 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 346 | #752 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 323 | #784 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 326 | #768 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 371 | #687 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 456 | #601 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 508 | #549 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 551 | #521 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 689 | #449 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 679 | #449 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 748 | #415 | 0.39 |
| 2013 | 775 | #385 | 0.41 |
| 2012 | 938 | #335 | 0.49 |
| 2011 | 963 | #325 | 0.51 |
| 2010 | 1,040 | #306 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 1,085 | #300 | 0.55 |
| 2008 | 1,230 | #277 | 0.60 |
| 2007 | 1,326 | #263 | 0.64 |
| 2006 | 1,312 | #262 | 0.64 |
| 2005 | 1,260 | #260 | 0.63 |
| 2004 | 1,349 | #245 | 0.68 |
| 2003 | 1,378 | #243 | 0.70 |
| 2002 | 1,190 | #264 | 0.61 |
| 2001 | 1,092 | #281 | 0.56 |
| 2000 | 1,219 | #268 | 0.62 |
| 1999 | 1,092 | #273 | 0.57 |
| 1998 | 1,027 | #280 | 0.54 |
| 1997 | 945 | #295 | 0.50 |
| 1996 | 887 | #300 | 0.47 |
| 1995 | 851 | #312 | 0.45 |
| 1994 | 763 | #328 | 0.39 |
| 1993 | 762 | #332 | 0.39 |
| 1992 | 873 | #306 | 0.44 |
| 1991 | 868 | #296 | 0.43 |
| 1990 | 1,041 | #257 | 0.51 |
| 1989 | 763 | #313 | 0.38 |
| 1988 | 682 | #318 | 0.36 |
| 1987 | 733 | #292 | 0.39 |
| 1986 | 818 | #266 | 0.44 |
| 1985 | 712 | #288 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 568 | #331 | 0.31 |
| 1983 | 437 | #382 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 429 | #393 | 0.24 |
| 1981 | 487 | #361 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 688 | #296 | 0.39 |
| 1979 | 703 | #286 | 0.41 |
| 1978 | 518 | #338 | 0.32 |
| 1977 | 653 | #296 | 0.40 |
| 1976 | 645 | #293 | 0.41 |
| 1975 | 617 | #305 | 0.40 |
| 1974 | 242 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 150 | #648 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 174 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 176 | #623 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 192 | #582 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 142 | #661 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 128 | #665 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 145 | #624 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 164 | #587 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 188 | #558 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 188 | #577 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 119 | #720 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 93 | #791 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 82 | #845 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 62 | #964 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 62 | #975 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,092 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 63 | #957 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 69 | #898 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 53 | #1,033 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,053 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,061 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 53 | #980 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,054 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,185 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,128 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 84 | #732 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 51 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,090 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,632 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,510 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,994 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,777 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,627 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,924 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,922 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,477 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brock a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brock has been given almost only to boys: 75 girls in 100 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brock: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brock, and how old are they?
41,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 43,615 Americans ever recorded as Brock. The median Brock alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 38,250 people named Brock (132 women and girls, 38,118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 876 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,990 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,410 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brock born?
The states with the most babies named Brock are Texas, California and Ohio, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 26 | #940 | 0.7× |
| California | 24 | #937 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 22 | #474 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 18 | #463 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 14 | #679 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #669 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 13 | #425 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,136 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 9 | #878 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9 | #1,221 | 0.3× |
Where Brock is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brock is most over-represented in Utah: since 1914 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brock with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 46,409 babies since 1880, Brock is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 306 of their 306 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brock
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brock and names like it
- Compare Brock and BrocBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrock peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brock since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brock: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Brock.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brock alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.