Rockwell
Rockwell was given to 80 boys in 2025, #1,940 among boys’ names; 1,801 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Rockwell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rockwell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rockwell mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rockwell is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rockwell?
#1,940 among boys’ names, 2025
Rockwell fell from #1,714 in 2015 to #1,940 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 47.5 to 46.8 per million.
110 babies in 2017, the peak
Rockwell peaked in 2017, when 110 boys were given it, #1,516 among boys’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #1,940 | 46.8 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,054 | 43.0 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,170 | 39.2 |
| 2022 | 80 | #1,948 | 45.8 |
| 2021 | 95 | #1,719 | 54.3 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,589 | 59.7 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,103 | 38.5 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,622 | 55.6 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,516 | 59.4 |
| 2016 | 98 | #1,635 | 51.6 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 91 | #1,714 | 47.5 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,078 | 35.4 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,197 | 31.7 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,542 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,224 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,362 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,398 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,234 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,388 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,026 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,985 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,430 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,769 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,117 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,347 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,717 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,972 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,193 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,215 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,657 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,840 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,869 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,165 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,838 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,009 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,251 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,773 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,049 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,096 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,494 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,074 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,251 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,326 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,107 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,346 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,808 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,618 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,829 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,615 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,431 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,329 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,586 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,057 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,494 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,910 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,784 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,792 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,483 | 3.3 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,573 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,867 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,320 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,629 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,097 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,579 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,755 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,315 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,871 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,690 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,375 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,183 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,498 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,086 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,843 | 4.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,941 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,471 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,117 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,566 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,395 | 7.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,673 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,841 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,406 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,679 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,397 | 13.0 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,021 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,658 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rockwell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rockwell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rockwell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rockwell, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,801 Americans ever recorded as Rockwell. The median Rockwell alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,194 people named Rockwell (15 women and girls, 1,179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 88 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 64 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 78 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 285 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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 Rockwell born?
The states with the most babies named Rockwell are Utah, California and Arizona, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah and Arizona are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 18 | #285 | 14.7× |
| California | 7 | #2,167 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #916 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,508 | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,230 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #1,987 | 0.1× |
Where Rockwell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rockwell is most over-represented in Utah: since 1914 it was given 14.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Rockwell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rockwell
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 Rockwell and names like it
- Compare Rockwell and PennBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRockwell peaked in 2017.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rockwell since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rockwell: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Rockwell.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rockwell alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.