Meaning not yet researched.
Rock: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #618 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #618 in 1957; #5,566 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rock in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,566 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #618.
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Rock: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #618 in 1957 · most boys in one year: 155 (1957).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Rock, making it the 5,566th most common boys’ name of the year, down 545 places from #5,021 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 boys named Rock in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #618, reached in 1957. That year also had the most boys given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #3,669 in 2015 and #1,800 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rock in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 8 babies. In all, 2,681 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 908 babies named Rock.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 193 US boys were named Rock; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rockwell (1,801 babies since 1880) and Royce (35,662 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rook and Sten 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: Rook (750), Sten (170).
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 Rock 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,566 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,021 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,207 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,086 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,749 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,829 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,449 |
| 2018 | — | — | 16 | #5,727 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,478 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,506 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,669 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,671 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,394 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,648 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,625 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,694 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,618 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,236 |
| 2007 | — | — | 22 | #4,469 |
| 2006 | — | — | 26 | #3,867 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,302 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,439 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,817 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,297 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,943 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,731 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,810 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,600 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,510 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,383 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #5,057 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,443 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,940 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,284 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #5,025 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,280 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,980 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,052 |
| 1987 | — | — | 16 | #3,169 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,239 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,918 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,513 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,197 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,906 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,556 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,950 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,220 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,358 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,439 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,795 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,430 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,346 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,771 |
| 1972 | — | — | 27 | #1,711 |
| 1971 | — | — | 30 | #1,629 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,197 |
| 1969 | — | — | 26 | #1,634 |
| 1968 | — | — | 32 | #1,386 |
| 1967 | — | — | 32 | #1,359 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,363 |
| 1965 | — | — | 35 | #1,314 |
| 1964 | — | — | 50 | #1,079 |
| 1963 | — | — | 52 | #1,066 |
| 1962 | — | — | 78 | #859 |
| 1961 | — | — | 87 | #820 |
| 1960 | — | — | 101 | #763 |
| 1959 | — | — | 133 | #663 |
| 1958 | — | — | 138 | #656 |
| 1957 | — | — | 155 | #618 |
| 1956 | — | — | 136 | #651 |
| 1955 | — | — | 141 | #627 |
| 1954 | — | — | 83 | #792 |
| 1953 | — | — | 52 | #1,012 |
| 1952 | — | — | 34 | #1,293 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,823 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,800 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,314 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,582 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,839 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,929 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,949 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,823 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,488 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,163 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,086 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,447 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,921 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,471 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #3,201 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,494 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,792 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,228 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,759 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,686 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,813 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #3,021 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,233 |
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).