Meaning not yet researched.
Rochelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #236 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #236 in 1969; #4,646 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rochelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,646 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #236.
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Rochelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #236 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 1,271 (1969).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Rochelle, making it the 4,646th most common girls’ name of the year, down 624 places from #4,022 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 37 girls named Rochelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #236, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,271. For comparison, it was #2,921 in 2015 and #342 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rochelle in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 47,395 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 9,970 babies named Rochelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 362 US girls were named Rochelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rochel (4,023 babies since 1880) and Rochell (1,711 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rochele, Rocheal and Roechelle 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rochele (512), Rocheal (15), Roechelle (11), Ruchelle (6), Rouchelle (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 Rochelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,022 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,970 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,519 | — | — |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,982 | — | — |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 2015 | 60 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,984 | — | — |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,049 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2005 | 134 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 2004 | 144 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2003 | 135 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 2002 | 169 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 2001 | 159 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2000 | 197 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1999 | 218 | #951 | — | — |
| 1998 | 242 | #875 | — | — |
| 1997 | 265 | #788 | — | — |
| 1996 | 319 | #685 | — | — |
| 1995 | 356 | #620 | 6 | #8,661 |
| 1994 | 447 | #545 | — | — |
| 1993 | 514 | #489 | — | — |
| 1992 | 567 | #446 | — | — |
| 1991 | 625 | #409 | 5 | #9,325 |
| 1990 | 696 | #377 | — | — |
| 1989 | 707 | #366 | 10 | #5,098 |
| 1988 | 728 | #338 | — | — |
| 1987 | 740 | #332 | 5 | #7,890 |
| 1986 | 695 | #347 | — | — |
| 1985 | 673 | #348 | — | — |
| 1984 | 692 | #335 | 9 | #4,481 |
| 1983 | 683 | #339 | 7 | #5,360 |
| 1982 | 810 | #302 | — | — |
| 1981 | 812 | #297 | 10 | #4,090 |
| 1980 | 754 | #321 | 7 | #5,393 |
| 1979 | 792 | #301 | 6 | #5,906 |
| 1978 | 722 | #316 | 7 | #4,938 |
| 1977 | 711 | #331 | 7 | #5,008 |
| 1976 | 739 | #311 | 7 | #4,817 |
| 1975 | 829 | #290 | — | — |
| 1974 | 899 | #281 | 16 | #2,537 |
| 1973 | 1,007 | #251 | 10 | #3,402 |
| 1972 | 1,049 | #257 | 9 | #3,552 |
| 1971 | 1,155 | #257 | 10 | #3,313 |
| 1970 | 1,179 | #261 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,271 | #236 | 13 | #2,521 |
| 1968 | 1,049 | #258 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,009 | #267 | — | — |
| 1966 | 901 | #282 | 8 | #3,190 |
| 1965 | 900 | #297 | 9 | #2,944 |
| 1964 | 948 | #301 | 9 | #3,013 |
| 1963 | 871 | #316 | 9 | #3,012 |
| 1962 | 990 | #293 | 18 | #1,947 |
| 1961 | 1,036 | #289 | 9 | #3,056 |
| 1960 | 910 | #312 | 10 | #2,836 |
| 1959 | 919 | #299 | 9 | #2,999 |
| 1958 | 862 | #307 | 10 | #2,783 |
| 1957 | 787 | #325 | — | — |
| 1956 | 786 | #313 | 12 | #2,469 |
| 1955 | 728 | #318 | 9 | #2,935 |
| 1954 | 624 | #341 | 7 | #3,403 |
| 1953 | 574 | #354 | 10 | #2,681 |
| 1952 | 544 | #353 | — | — |
| 1951 | 537 | #344 | — | — |
| 1950 | 524 | #342 | 7 | #3,267 |
| 1949 | 494 | #353 | 6 | #3,628 |
| 1948 | 475 | #357 | — | — |
| 1947 | 486 | #365 | — | — |
| 1946 | 455 | #357 | 8 | #2,870 |
| 1945 | 364 | #368 | — | — |
| 1944 | 383 | #352 | — | — |
| 1943 | 465 | #326 | 5 | #3,949 |
| 1942 | 487 | #312 | 7 | #3,162 |
| 1941 | 456 | #303 | 6 | #3,435 |
| 1940 | 460 | #295 | 7 | #3,081 |
| 1939 | 420 | #299 | 15 | #1,856 |
| 1938 | 478 | #287 | 6 | #3,466 |
| 1937 | 451 | #293 | 7 | #3,124 |
| 1936 | 440 | #291 | 11 | #2,274 |
| 1935 | 233 | #425 | — | — |
| 1934 | 103 | #663 | — | — |
| 1933 | 70 | #799 | — | — |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1928 | 42 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,533 | 5 | #4,716 |
| 1925 | 49 | #1,100 | 6 | #4,111 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1923 | 44 | #1,171 | 5 | #4,778 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1921 | 57 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1920 | 41 | #1,203 | 5 | #4,844 |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,087 | 6 | #4,081 |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,111 | 5 | #4,395 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,476 | 6 | #3,197 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,411 | 5 | #1,796 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,893 | — | — |
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).