Rochele
Rochele was last recorded in 1998, when 7 babies were given it; 512 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rochele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rochele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,108, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1972, the peak
Rochele peaked in 1972, when 22 girls were given it, #3,035 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #12,108 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,313 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,287 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,490 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,574 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,719 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,354 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,572 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,529 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,934 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 13 | #5,681 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,043 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,268 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,833 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,298 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,205 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,472 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,337 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,465 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,880 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,633 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,781 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,661 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,526 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,035 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,470 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,284 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,172 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,952 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,794 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,902 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,233 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,574 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,210 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,477 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,928 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,091 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,240 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,812 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,471 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,753 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,657 | 4.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,174 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rochele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rochele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rochele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rochele, and how old are they?
An estimated 471 Americans named Rochele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 43 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 490 people named Rochele (490 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 483 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rochele?
Rochele is a less common spelling of Rochelle: SSA has recorded 512 Rochele and 47,395 Rochelle since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 48,160 babies since 1880, Rochele is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Rochele (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rochele
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 Rochele and names like it
- Compare Rochele and RochelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRochele peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rochele since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Rochele.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rochele alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.