Roque
Roque was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,078 among boys’ names; 2,583 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Roque and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 19 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roque by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roque mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Roque is “a male given name, equivalent to English Rocco”
/ˈʁɔ.ki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roque?
#6,078 among boys’ names, 2025
Roque fell from #3,212 in 2015 to #6,078 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 8.8 per million.
54 babies in 2004, the peak
Roque peaked in 2004, when 54 boys were given it, #2,183 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,078 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,408 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,709 | 12.9 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,162 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,337 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,826 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,411 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,972 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,865 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 35 | #3,279 | 18.4 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,212 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,234 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,394 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,694 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,990 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,209 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,149 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,926 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,670 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,923 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,154 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,183 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,608 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,324 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,122 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,416 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,330 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,635 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,013 | 23.9 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,169 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,087 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,206 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,759 | 25.0 |
| 1992 | 43 | #1,902 | 21.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,885 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,114 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,279 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 28 | #2,233 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,921 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,688 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,910 | 16.8 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,924 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,806 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,763 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,756 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,759 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,507 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,953 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,426 | 25.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,918 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,621 | 20.5 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,110 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,542 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,919 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,771 | 14.7 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,929 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,715 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,950 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,643 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,643 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,156 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 23 | #1,689 | 11.5 |
| 1963 | 24 | #1,654 | 11.8 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,174 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 27 | #1,567 | 12.7 |
| 1960 | 27 | #1,572 | 12.7 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,906 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,583 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,940 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,934 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,567 | 12.1 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,101 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,024 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,352 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,892 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,100 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,104 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,097 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,338 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,878 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,996 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,874 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,753 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,787 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,070 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,973 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,588 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,618 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,866 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,811 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,371 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,007 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,572 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,172 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,616 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,755 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,499 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,248 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,387 | 11.5 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,279 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,113 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,794 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,415 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,017 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,605 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,928 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,833 | 10.2 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,341 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roque a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roque has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roque: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roque, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,583 Americans ever recorded as Roque. The median Roque alive today is 33 years old; half are between 19 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 4,536 people named Roque (59 women and girls, 4,477 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 234 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 379 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 529 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 584 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 344 |
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 Roque born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,881 | 3.9× |
| California | 5 | #2,739 | 2.0× |
Where Roque is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roque is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 3.9 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 Roque 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 Roque
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 Roque and names like it
- Compare Roque and MaximinoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRoque peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roque since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Roque: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Roque.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Roque alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.