# Brock (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brock/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /bɹɑk/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 43,615 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 43,540 / 75 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 205, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 6 | 8,099 |
| 1976 | 7 | 7,379 |
| 1979 | 7 | 8,142 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,577 |
| 1982 | 7 | 8,333 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,459 |
| 1985 | 5 | 10,869 |
| 1988 | 6 | 10,540 |
| 1989 | 5 | 12,645 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,248 |
| 1994 | 6 | 11,994 |
| 2001 | 6 | 13,798 |
| 2005 | 5 | 16,939 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 963 | 325 |
| 2012 | 938 | 335 |
| 2013 | 775 | 385 |
| 2014 | 748 | 415 |
| 2015 | 679 | 449 |
| 2016 | 689 | 449 |
| 2017 | 551 | 521 |
| 2018 | 508 | 549 |
| 2019 | 456 | 601 |
| 2020 | 371 | 687 |
| 2021 | 326 | 768 |
| 2022 | 323 | 784 |
| 2023 | 346 | 752 |
| 2024 | 383 | 702 |
| 2025 | 306 | 810 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | 2,036 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,270 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,216 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,319 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,398 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 12 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2,813 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Brock

- Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and football player (born 1977)
- Brock Peters, American actor (1927–2005)
- Brock Chisholm, Canadian psychiatrist and director-general of the World Health Organization (1896–1971)
- Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player
- Brock Purdy, American football player (born 1999)
- Brock Adams, American lawyer, politician (1927-2004)
- Brock Faber, American ice hockey player
- Brock Motum, Australian basketball player (born 1990)
- Brock Boeser, American ice hockey player
- Brock Pierce, entrepreneur, former child actor
- Brock Bowers, American football player (born 2002)
- Brock McGinn, Canadian ice hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.