Rochell
Rochell was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 1,711 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Rochell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 44 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rochell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rochell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,848, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
64 babies in 1971, the peak
Rochell peaked in 1971, when 64 babies were given it (59 girls, #1,610 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #19,848 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,578 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,151 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,321 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,828 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,719 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,037 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,432 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,178 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,712 | 9.7 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 16 | #5,882 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,425 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,532 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,207 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,867 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,974 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,088 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,134 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,093 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,434 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,843 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,499 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,581 | 21.0 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,883 | 18.9 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,317 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,582 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,076 | 30.5 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,421 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,157 | 28.7 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,645 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,268 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,955 | 30.0 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,682 | 37.0 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,693 | 34.8 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,610 | 35.5 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,677 | 32.0 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,662 | 31.4 |
| 1968 | 58 | #1,498 | 35.4 |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,679 | 28.5 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,730 | 25.4 |
| 1965 | 56 | #1,495 | 31.7 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,294 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 47 | #1,677 | 24.4 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,980 | 17.8 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,885 | 18.8 |
| 1960 | 33 | #2,002 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,142 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,153 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,546 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,371 | 11.5 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,620 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,216 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,433 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,509 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,945 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,023 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,830 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,867 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,403 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,925 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,113 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,951 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,789 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,719 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,868 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,411 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rochell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,711 Americans recorded as Rochell, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rochell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rochell, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,711 Americans ever recorded as Rochell. The median Rochell alive today is 54 years old; half are between 44 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,187 people named Rochell (1,096 women and girls, 91 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 347 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 716 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 349 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 74 |
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 Rochell born?
The states with the most babies named Rochell are California, Illinois and Mississippi, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 102 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 52 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 29 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Rochell 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,734 babies since 1880, Rochell is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 none of their 147 babies recorded by SSA was a Rochell (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 Rochell
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 Rochell and names like it
- Compare Rochell and RochelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRochell peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rochell since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Rochell.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rochell alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.