Roc
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1957 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 287since 1952
Roc over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Roc has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #7,617 | 10 |
| 2017 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
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| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
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| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #2,274 | 13 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | #3,095 | 7 |
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First appearance
1952
The first year at least five boys were named Roc! It came in at #3,095, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1963, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Roc is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Roc in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 2,028 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #8,910)
- 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,910)
- 870 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
5 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1957 at #2,274 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1959, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 137,048
- Highest: 1 in 137,048 boys born in 2010 were named Roc (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,274 in 1957, was only 1 in 165,941 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 30.3% of all boys named Roc (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 66 | #2,274 (1957) | #2,730 |
| 1960s | 16 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,900 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 31 | #6,407 (1995) | #7,784 |
| 2000s | 52 | #7,536 (2001) | #9,664 |
| 2010s | 87 | #6,036 (2010) | #8,120 |
| 2020s | 35 | #8,255 (2023) | #9,997 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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