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Rocky: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 520 in 2025. Its best rank was #240 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #240 in 1955; #568 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Rocky in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#568 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #240.
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Rocky: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 520 boys in 2025. Peak: #240 in 1955 · most boys in one year: 909 (1957).
In 2025, 520 US boys were named Rocky, making it the 568th most common boys’ name of the year, up 88 places from #656 in 2024. That is 101 more than the 419 boys named Rocky in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #240, reached in 1955. The most boys given the name in a single year was 909, in 1957. For comparison, it was #927 in 2015 and #388 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rocky in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 29,134 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 7,043 babies named Rocky.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,938 US boys were named Rocky; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 520. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,285 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rocky ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #86 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Rockie, Rockey and Rocki 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: Rockie (1,071), Rockey (941), Rocki (70).
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 Rocky 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 11 | #86 | — |
| Utah | 34 | #167 | #546 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #302 | — |
| Washington | 22 | #349 | #920 |
| Arizona | 22 | #352 | #867 |
| Oregon | 11 | #369 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #384 | #561 |
| Colorado | 16 | #396 | #768 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #420 | — |
| Ohio | 25 | #435 | #1,347 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #497 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #503 | #1,134 |
| California | 58 | #535 | #738 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #540 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #582 | #812 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #630 | #621 |
| Michigan | 13 | #634 | #800 |
| Texas | 48 | #637 | #853 |
| Indiana | 10 | #658 | #996 |
| Alabama | 7 | #669 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #676 | — |
| Florida | 23 | #697 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #700 | #969 |
| Missouri | 8 | #701 | — |
| New York | 20 | #742 | #2,054 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #750 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #780 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #781 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #819 | — |
| North Carolina | 10 | #857 | #971 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,564 | 520 | #568 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,805 | 419 | #656 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,539 | 263 | #886 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,094 | 268 | #884 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,934 | 266 | #870 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,624 | 264 | #860 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,283 | 267 | #843 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,520 | 237 | #910 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,554 | 217 | #960 |
| 2016 | — | — | 217 | #955 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,040 | 231 | #927 |
| 2014 | — | — | 211 | #989 |
| 2013 | — | — | 197 | #998 |
| 2012 | — | — | 188 | #1,034 |
| 2011 | — | — | 186 | #1,027 |
| 2010 | — | — | 164 | #1,136 |
| 2009 | — | — | 187 | #1,032 |
| 2008 | — | — | 197 | #994 |
| 2007 | — | — | 216 | #918 |
| 2006 | — | — | 189 | #983 |
| 2005 | — | — | 180 | #971 |
| 2004 | — | — | 159 | #1,033 |
| 2003 | — | — | 160 | #995 |
| 2002 | — | — | 148 | #1,042 |
| 2001 | — | — | 159 | #972 |
| 2000 | — | — | 172 | #905 |
| 1999 | — | — | 131 | #1,054 |
| 1998 | — | — | 140 | #987 |
| 1997 | — | — | 142 | #950 |
| 1996 | — | — | 142 | #924 |
| 1995 | — | — | 190 | #781 |
| 1994 | — | — | 175 | #803 |
| 1993 | — | — | 203 | #732 |
| 1992 | — | — | 189 | #754 |
| 1991 | — | — | 209 | #701 |
| 1990 | — | — | 235 | #657 |
| 1989 | — | — | 228 | #665 |
| 1988 | — | — | 296 | #531 |
| 1987 | — | — | 316 | #503 |
| 1986 | — | — | 410 | #426 |
| 1985 | — | — | 411 | #423 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,721 | 426 | #401 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,932 | 486 | #362 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,330 | 589 | #325 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,959 | 592 | #325 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,247 | 599 | #320 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,746 | 656 | #302 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,467 | 553 | #318 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,346 | 565 | #328 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,949 | 403 | #383 |
| 1975 | — | — | 334 | #430 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,718 | 208 | #556 |
| 1973 | — | — | 225 | #524 |
| 1972 | — | — | 230 | #520 |
| 1971 | — | — | 239 | #525 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,773 | 254 | #506 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,450 | 267 | #470 |
| 1968 | — | — | 243 | #488 |
| 1967 | — | — | 272 | #460 |
| 1966 | — | — | 302 | #439 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,690 | 371 | #410 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,367 | 454 | #366 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,477 | 520 | #340 |
| 1962 | — | — | 561 | #333 |
| 1961 | — | — | 730 | #286 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,874 | 858 | #273 |
| 1959 | — | — | 845 | #274 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,446 | 780 | #273 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,880 | 909 | #252 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,858 | 890 | #243 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,659 | 858 | #240 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,128 | 786 | #247 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,933 | 684 | #268 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,435 | 540 | #307 |
| 1951 | — | — | 379 | #350 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,177 | 300 | #388 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,892 | 287 | #396 |
| 1948 | — | — | 208 | #462 |
| 1947 | — | — | 178 | #503 |
| 1946 | — | — | 98 | #653 |
| 1945 | — | — | 85 | #655 |
| 1944 | — | — | 54 | #866 |
| 1943 | — | — | 50 | #948 |
| 1942 | — | — | 49 | #954 |
| 1941 | — | — | 28 | #1,270 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,463 |
| 1939 | — | — | 27 | #1,294 |
| 1938 | — | — | 14 | #1,963 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,518 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,631 |
| 1935 | — | — | 26 | #1,348 |
| 1934 | — | — | 26 | #1,352 |
| 1933 | — | — | 28 | #1,275 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,605 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,985 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,804 |
| 1929 | — | — | 24 | #1,515 |
| 1928 | — | — | 17 | #1,951 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,939 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,871 |
| 1925 | — | — | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,328 |
| 1923 | — | — | 11 | #2,742 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #2,016 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,173 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,807 |
| 1919 | — | — | 12 | #2,485 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,061 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,485 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,370 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,788 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,660 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,742 |
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).