Rock
Rock was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,564 among boys’ names; 2,681 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Rock and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 26 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rock by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rock mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rock is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
As an English surname, from the noun rock. Compare Roach.
Also as an English surname, misdivision of Middle English atter oke (“at the oak”). Compare Nock.
As an English occupational surname, from Old Norse rokkr (“distaff”). Compare Rocker.
As an Irish surname, translated from names like Mac Conchairge (“son of the hound of the rock”), from cú + carraig, see also McHarg.
As a German surname Röck, variant of the personal name Rocco, see Roche.
Also as a German surname, from the noun Rock (“skirt gown”).
As a French surname, shortened from Roquebrune, Rocquebrune or Larock. Compare Roch.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rock?
#5,564 among boys’ names, 2025
Rock fell from #3,668 in 2015 to #5,564 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 10.0 per million.
155 babies in 1957, the peak
Rock peaked in 1957, when 155 boys were given it, #617 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,564 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,017 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,202 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,081 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,745 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,825 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,445 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,723 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,474 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,505 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,668 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,667 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,392 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,644 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,623 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,693 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,616 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,233 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,467 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,865 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,297 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,433 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,810 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,291 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,936 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,725 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,805 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,596 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,504 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,376 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,051 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,437 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,934 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,277 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,018 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,274 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,974 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,047 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,165 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,236 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,915 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,512 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,196 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,904 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,555 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,950 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,219 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,358 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,439 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,794 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,429 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,344 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,771 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,711 | 16.7 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,628 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,196 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 26 | #1,633 | 14.5 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,386 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 32 | #1,358 | 18.4 |
| 1966 | 32 | #1,362 | 17.9 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,314 | 18.8 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,079 | 25.1 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,065 | 25.6 |
| 1962 | 78 | #858 | 37.7 |
| 1961 | 87 | #819 | 41.0 |
| 1960 | 101 | #762 | 47.4 |
| 1959 | 133 | #662 | 62.3 |
| 1958 | 138 | #655 | 65.0 |
| 1957 | 155 | #617 | 71.9 |
| 1956 | 136 | #650 | 64.3 |
| 1955 | 141 | #626 | 68.5 |
| 1954 | 83 | #791 | 40.7 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,011 | 26.4 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,292 | 17.5 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,822 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 18 | #1,799 | 10.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,313 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,581 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,838 | 9.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,928 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,948 | 5.2 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,822 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,487 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,162 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,085 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,447 | 8.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,919 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,470 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,201 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,492 | 6.5 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,791 | 6.2 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,226 | 5.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,758 | 6.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,685 | 4.9 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,812 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,020 | 9.4 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,232 | 15.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rock a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rock has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rock: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rock, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 2,681 Americans ever recorded as Rock. The median Rock alive today is 57 years old; half are between 26 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 2,661 people named Rock (49 women and girls, 2,612 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rock rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 931 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 351 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 238 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 274 |
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 Rock born?
The states with the most babies named Rock are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 153 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 89 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 13 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Rock 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,639 babies since 1880, Rock is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 157 babies (11%), the third most given that year.
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 Rock
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 Rock and names like it
- Compare Rock and RookBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRock peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rock since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rock: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Rock.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rock alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.