Rock
#5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 1957 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,681since 1913
Rock over time
Rank among boys' names. Rock has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #4,509 | 21 |
| 2010 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #3,551 | 30 |
| 2008 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #3,782 | 26 |
| 2005 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #3,131 | 15 |
| 1985 | #2,828 | 17 |
| 1984 | #2,437 | 20 |
| 1983 | #2,140 | 24 |
| 1982 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #2,496 | 19 |
| 1980 | #1,910 | 29 |
| 1979 | #2,157 | 23 |
| 1978 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #2,361 | 18 |
| 1974 | #2,277 | 18 |
| 1973 | #1,736 | 26 |
| 1972 | #1,680 | 27 |
| 1971 | #1,597 | 30 |
| 1970 | #2,125 | 18 |
| 1969 | #1,605 | 26 |
| 1968 | #1,366 | 32 |
| 1967 | #1,340 | 32 |
| 1966 | #1,345 | 32 |
| 1965 | #1,294 | 35 |
| 1964 | #1,070 | 50 |
| 1963 | #1,052 | 52 |
| 1962 | #856 | 78 |
| 1961 | #817 | 87 |
| 1960 | #762 | 101 |
| 1959 | #662 | 133 |
| 1958 | #654 | 138 |
| 1957 | #618 | 155 |
| 1956 | #650 | 136 |
| 1955 | #625 | 141 |
| 1954 | #788 | 83 |
| 1953 | #999 | 52 |
| 1952 | #1,268 | 34 |
| 1951 | #1,774 | 18 |
| 1950 | #1,746 | 18 |
| 1949 | #2,225 | 12 |
| 1948 | #2,443 | 10 |
| 1947 | #1,786 | 18 |
| 1946 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #2,743 | 7 |
| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #2,872 | 7 |
| 1940 | #2,322 | 10 |
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| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
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| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
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| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
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| 1920 | #3,489 | 7 |
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| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
| 1915 | #2,829 | 8 |
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| 1913 | #2,092 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rock! It came in at #2,092, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rock is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#322 · 1 in 4,831
- Michigan#385 · 1 in 7,991
- Ohio#400 · 1 in 9,190
- Pennsylvania#428 · 1 in 12,047
- California#512 · 1 in 9,900
Best ever in a state: #255 in Nebraska, 1954.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kansas | #322 | 5 | 1 in 4,831 |
| Michigan | #385 | 12 | 1 in 7,991 |
| Ohio | #400 | 12 | 1 in 9,190 |
| Pennsylvania | #428 | 10 | 1 in 12,047 |
| California | #512 | 16 | 1 in 9,900 |
| Texas | #615 | 13 | 1 in 9,303 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rock
- 509 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,399)
- 701 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #5,399)
- 1,808 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #5,399)
- Biggest jump: 269 spots in 1953 (#1,268 → #999)
- Biggest drop: 196 spots in 1963 (#856 → #1,052)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1957 at #618 (155 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1953–1962
- Highest: 1 in 13,918 boys born in 1957 were named Rock (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.9% of all boys named Rock (908) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 27 | #2,092 (1913) | #3,154 |
| 1920s | 27 | #3,247 (1929) | #3,528 |
| 1930s | 18 | #2,951 (1935) | #3,205 |
| 1940s | 90 | #1,786 (1947) | #2,672 |
| 1950s | 908 | #618 (1957) | #978 |
| 1960s | 525 | #762 (1960) | #1,151 |
| 1970s | 214 | #1,597 (1971) | #2,128 |
| 1980s | 183 | #1,910 (1980) | #2,848 |
| 1990s | 141 | #3,166 (1990) | #4,505 |
| 2000s | 201 | #3,551 (2009) | #4,524 |
| 2010s | 242 | #3,339 (2013) | #4,276 |
| 2020s | 105 | #4,628 (2021) | #5,398 |
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.
Rock in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
boys
2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 14,609 of them was named Rock, which outranked 85.8% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).