Girls' name · since 1968
Rockelle
252 babies named Rockelle in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #17,535 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 252
- born since 1968
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rockelle is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 252 have been recorded since 1968.
Rockelle has 252 recorded births among girls since 1968, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1968 to 2024.
- #17,535 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 252 born since 1968
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rockelle ranks #17,535 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 252 born since 1968, peaking in the 1990s.
- #17,535 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 252
- born since 1968
- 1990s
- peak decade
Rockelle's 252 recorded births place it above 75.75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Rockelle's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Rockelle's full recorded timeline at 1997, 47% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 53% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1970, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1988 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Rockelle popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–2024
- Peak year (1988)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 57 years of records
Rockelle by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (75 births, 30% of the file).
1990s was Rockelle's strongest decade.
75 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 30% of all-time use.
Rockelle births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s 7
1960s
7 births
- 1970s 15
1970s
15 births
- 1980s
1980s
59 births
- 1990s
1990s
75 births
- 2000s
2000s
44 births
- 2010s
2010s
47 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 75 births (30% of all-time use).
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- Rockelle's decade-level peak was the 1990s (75 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Rockelle: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1988)
Similar record span (~56 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1968–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rockelle draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.