Rocket — #5373 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Rocket

The Social Security Administration has registered 361 babies named Rocket between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rocket currently holds the #5373 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Rocket is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rocket performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 199 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Rocket shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Rocket in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rocket 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 361 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.