Rochell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Rochell

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,619 babies named Rochell between 1919 and 2008, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rochell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 59 babies received it in a single year. Rochell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 92 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rochell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 463 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Rochell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 102 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Rochell in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rochell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,619 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.