Meaning not yet researched.
Rocco: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 679 in 2025. Its best rank was #283 in 1922.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #283 in 1922; #459 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rocco in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#459 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1922, at #283.
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Rocco: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 679 boys in 2025. Peak: #283 in 1922 · most boys in one year: 785 (2009).
In 2025, 679 US boys were named Rocco, making it the 459th most common boys’ name of the year, up 42 places from #501 in 2024. That is 70 more than the 609 boys named Rocco in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #283, reached in 1922. The most boys given the name in a single year was 785, in 2009. For comparison, it was #463 in 2015 and #503 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rocco in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1891 with 5 babies. In all, 31,684 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,657 babies named Rocco.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,172 US boys were named Rocco; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 680. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,516 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rocco ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #163 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Roque, Rocko and Roko are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Roque (2,583), Rocko (291), Roko (69), Rokko (10), Rochus (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rocco in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 22 | #163 | #257 |
| New Jersey | 60 | #172 | #191 |
| New York | 102 | #196 | #256 |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | #216 | #220 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #228 | #169 |
| Massachusetts | 26 | #236 | #184 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #247 | — |
| Ohio | 40 | #303 | #334 |
| Florida | 49 | #402 | #506 |
| Illinois | 26 | #430 | #400 |
| Maryland | 12 | #430 | #484 |
| Michigan | 19 | #455 | #661 |
| Arizona | 15 | #484 | #552 |
| Iowa | 7 | #489 | #629 |
| Colorado | 12 | #493 | #358 |
| California | 60 | #516 | #425 |
| Virginia | 15 | #519 | #659 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #544 | #366 |
| Nevada | 5 | #579 | #384 |
| Oregon | 6 | #587 | #536 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #657 | — |
| North Carolina | 13 | #711 | #970 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #713 | #1,021 |
| Washington | 9 | #722 | #561 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #782 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #789 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #863 | #843 |
| Missouri | 5 | #971 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,064 | #793 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 679 | #459 |
| 2024 | — | — | 609 | #501 |
| 2023 | — | — | 592 | #508 |
| 2022 | — | — | 581 | #512 |
| 2021 | — | — | 586 | #502 |
| 2020 | — | — | 596 | #492 |
| 2019 | — | — | 576 | #498 |
| 2018 | — | — | 610 | #481 |
| 2017 | — | — | 663 | #457 |
| 2016 | — | — | 680 | #455 |
| 2015 | — | — | 657 | #463 |
| 2014 | — | — | 658 | #451 |
| 2013 | — | — | 693 | #424 |
| 2012 | — | — | 686 | #415 |
| 2011 | — | — | 709 | #400 |
| 2010 | — | — | 725 | #392 |
| 2009 | — | — | 785 | #385 |
| 2008 | — | — | 707 | #417 |
| 2007 | — | — | 627 | #447 |
| 2006 | — | — | 530 | #490 |
| 2005 | — | — | 443 | #545 |
| 2004 | — | — | 439 | #538 |
| 2003 | — | — | 299 | #665 |
| 2002 | — | — | 225 | #768 |
| 2001 | — | — | 238 | #732 |
| 2000 | — | — | 118 | #1,171 |
| 1999 | — | — | 98 | #1,266 |
| 1998 | — | — | 102 | #1,212 |
| 1997 | — | — | 98 | #1,209 |
| 1996 | — | — | 115 | #1,065 |
| 1995 | — | — | 130 | #976 |
| 1994 | — | — | 124 | #1,001 |
| 1993 | — | — | 124 | #972 |
| 1992 | — | — | 130 | #942 |
| 1991 | — | — | 106 | #1,052 |
| 1990 | — | — | 139 | #873 |
| 1989 | — | — | 142 | #845 |
| 1988 | — | — | 121 | #864 |
| 1987 | — | — | 146 | #759 |
| 1986 | — | — | 120 | #829 |
| 1985 | — | — | 133 | #771 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,720 | 132 | #755 |
| 1983 | — | — | 139 | #734 |
| 1982 | — | — | 135 | #759 |
| 1981 | — | — | 150 | #709 |
| 1980 | — | — | 150 | #711 |
| 1979 | — | — | 187 | #628 |
| 1978 | — | — | 127 | #753 |
| 1977 | — | — | 153 | #685 |
| 1976 | — | — | 139 | #709 |
| 1975 | — | — | 117 | #768 |
| 1974 | — | — | 149 | #664 |
| 1973 | — | — | 121 | #731 |
| 1972 | — | — | 131 | #706 |
| 1971 | — | — | 150 | #678 |
| 1970 | — | — | 141 | #702 |
| 1969 | — | — | 155 | #639 |
| 1968 | — | — | 158 | #608 |
| 1967 | — | — | 152 | #611 |
| 1966 | — | — | 152 | #605 |
| 1965 | — | — | 174 | #580 |
| 1964 | — | — | 195 | #568 |
| 1963 | — | — | 187 | #582 |
| 1962 | — | — | 187 | #574 |
| 1961 | — | — | 189 | #576 |
| 1960 | — | — | 236 | #517 |
| 1959 | — | — | 235 | #513 |
| 1958 | — | — | 245 | #498 |
| 1957 | — | — | 256 | #489 |
| 1956 | — | — | 255 | #474 |
| 1955 | — | — | 228 | #487 |
| 1954 | — | — | 205 | #507 |
| 1953 | — | — | 213 | #483 |
| 1952 | — | — | 201 | #498 |
| 1951 | — | — | 185 | #498 |
| 1950 | — | — | 177 | #503 |
| 1949 | — | — | 187 | #484 |
| 1948 | — | — | 185 | #489 |
| 1947 | — | — | 175 | #515 |
| 1946 | — | — | 138 | #544 |
| 1945 | — | — | 132 | #522 |
| 1944 | — | — | 128 | #538 |
| 1943 | — | — | 153 | #503 |
| 1942 | — | — | 167 | #475 |
| 1941 | — | — | 135 | #508 |
| 1940 | — | — | 123 | #527 |
| 1939 | — | — | 141 | #483 |
| 1938 | — | — | 143 | #484 |
| 1937 | — | — | 128 | #510 |
| 1936 | — | — | 160 | #446 |
| 1935 | — | — | 179 | #412 |
| 1934 | — | — | 153 | #456 |
| 1933 | — | — | 210 | #374 |
| 1932 | — | — | 185 | #412 |
| 1931 | — | — | 218 | #380 |
| 1930 | — | — | 238 | #372 |
| 1929 | — | — | 275 | #335 |
| 1928 | — | — | 286 | #333 |
| 1927 | — | — | 330 | #317 |
| 1926 | — | — | 307 | #327 |
| 1925 | — | — | 316 | #320 |
| 1924 | — | — | 360 | #300 |
| 1923 | — | — | 332 | #316 |
| 1922 | — | — | 388 | #283 |
| 1921 | — | — | 350 | #308 |
| 1920 | — | — | 372 | #292 |
| 1919 | — | — | 332 | #298 |
| 1918 | — | — | 307 | #324 |
| 1917 | — | — | 320 | #293 |
| 1916 | — | — | 315 | #292 |
| 1915 | — | — | 290 | #295 |
| 1914 | — | — | 198 | #326 |
| 1913 | — | — | 164 | #315 |
| 1912 | — | — | 115 | #358 |
| 1911 | — | — | 69 | #331 |
| 1910 | — | — | 47 | #381 |
| 1909 | — | — | 43 | #364 |
| 1908 | — | — | 22 | #550 |
| 1907 | — | — | 25 | #470 |
| 1906 | — | — | 24 | #463 |
| 1905 | — | — | 19 | #545 |
| 1904 | — | — | 11 | #754 |
| 1903 | — | — | 22 | #446 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #729 |
| 1901 | — | — | 14 | #552 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #777 |
| 1899 | — | — | 15 | #517 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #975 |
| 1897 | — | — | 12 | #640 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #629 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #857 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,055 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #1,007 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #847 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,097 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).