Rocky
Rocky was given to 520 boys in 2025, #568 among boys’ names; 29,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,200 Americans named Rocky and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 26 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rocky by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rocky mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rocky is “a diminutive of the male given names Robert, Ricky, Rocco, Roch, and Rock.”
Diminutives with -y.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rocky?
#568 among boys’ names, 2025
Rocky rose from #927 in 2015 to #568 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.30 per 1,000.
920 babies in 1957, the peak
Rocky peaked in 1957, when 920 babies were given it (909 boys, #252 among boys’ names). The 563 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 520 | #568 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 419 | #656 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 263 | #886 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 268 | #884 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 266 | #870 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 264 | #860 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 267 | #843 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 237 | #910 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 217 | #960 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 217 | #955 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 231 | #927 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 211 | #989 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 197 | #998 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 188 | #1,034 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 186 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 164 | #1,136 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,032 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 197 | #994 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 216 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 189 | #983 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 180 | #970 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 159 | #1,032 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 160 | #994 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 148 | #1,041 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 159 | #971 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 172 | #903 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,052 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 140 | #984 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 142 | #948 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 142 | #922 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 190 | #778 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 175 | #801 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 203 | #731 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 189 | #752 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 209 | #697 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 235 | #655 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 228 | #662 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 296 | #531 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 316 | #503 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 410 | #426 | 0.22 |
| 1985 | 411 | #423 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 426 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1983 | 486 | #362 | 0.27 |
| 1982 | 589 | #325 | 0.32 |
| 1981 | 592 | #325 | 0.33 |
| 1980 | 599 | #320 | 0.34 |
| 1979 | 656 | #302 | 0.38 |
| 1978 | 553 | #318 | 0.34 |
| 1977 | 565 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1976 | 403 | #383 | 0.26 |
| 1975 | 334 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 208 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 225 | #524 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 230 | #520 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 239 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 254 | #506 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 267 | #470 | 0.15 |
| 1968 | 243 | #488 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 272 | #460 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 302 | #439 | 0.17 |
| 1965 | 371 | #410 | 0.20 |
| 1964 | 454 | #366 | 0.23 |
| 1963 | 520 | #340 | 0.26 |
| 1962 | 561 | #333 | 0.27 |
| 1961 | 730 | #286 | 0.34 |
| 1960 | 858 | #273 | 0.40 |
| 1959 | 845 | #274 | 0.40 |
| 1958 | 780 | #273 | 0.37 |
| 1957 | 909 | #252 | 0.42 |
| 1956 | 890 | #243 | 0.42 |
| 1955 | 858 | #240 | 0.42 |
| 1954 | 786 | #247 | 0.39 |
| 1953 | 684 | #268 | 0.35 |
| 1952 | 540 | #307 | 0.28 |
| 1951 | 379 | #349 | 0.20 |
| 1950 | 300 | #387 | 0.17 |
| 1949 | 287 | #396 | 0.16 |
| 1948 | 208 | #462 | 0.12 |
| 1947 | 178 | #503 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 98 | #653 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 85 | #655 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 54 | #866 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 50 | #948 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 49 | #954 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,270 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,294 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,963 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,518 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,348 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,605 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,515 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,484 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,060 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,484 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,787 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,659 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rocky a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 29,134 Americans recorded as Rocky, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 girls and 520 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rocky: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rocky, and how old are they?
24,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 29,134 Americans ever recorded as Rocky. The median Rocky alive today is 47 years old; half are between 26 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 21,181 people named Rocky (364 women and girls, 20,817 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,345 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 138 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,590 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,790 |
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 Rocky born?
The states with the most babies named Rocky are California, Texas and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,552 | #535 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 3,347 | #637 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 1,323 | #435 | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 1,005 | #420 | 2.6× |
| Tennessee | 844 | #582 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 808 | #857 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 797 | #634 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 790 | #697 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 755 | #700 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 735 | #349 | 1.4× |
Where Rocky is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rocky is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1913 it was given 2.6 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 Rocky 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 63,190 babies since 1880, Rocky is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 563 of their 1,271 babies (44%), again the second most given.
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.
More about Rocky and names like it
- Compare Rocky and RoccoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRocky peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rocky since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Rocky.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rocky alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.