# Rocco (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rocco/  
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 | Italian |
| Meaning | “crow”, “rest”, “to roar” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 31,684 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 31,679 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6,163, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the Italian form of the name of French 14th century saint Roch, of Germanic origin. The meaning is obscure; Old High German hruoh (“crow”) (from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz), hrok (“rest”) (modern Ruhe) and rohōn (“to roar”) (modern röhren) have been suggested.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | 11,720 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 709 | 400 |
| 2012 | 686 | 415 |
| 2013 | 693 | 424 |
| 2014 | 658 | 451 |
| 2015 | 657 | 463 |
| 2016 | 680 | 455 |
| 2017 | 663 | 457 |
| 2018 | 610 | 481 |
| 2019 | 576 | 498 |
| 2020 | 596 | 492 |
| 2021 | 586 | 502 |
| 2022 | 581 | 512 |
| 2023 | 592 | 508 |
| 2024 | 609 | 501 |
| 2025 | 679 | 459 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 280 | 192 |
| 2012 | 301 | 185 |
| 2013 | 403 | 146 |
| 2014 | 418 | 137 |
| 2015 | 414 | 139 |
| 2016 | 441 | 135 |
| 2017 | 462 | 126 |
| 2018 | 344 | 164 |
| 2019 | 298 | 177 |
| 2020 | 326 | 163 |
| 2021 | 294 | 179 |
| 2022 | 244 | 208 |
| 2023 | 220 | 221 |
| 2024 | 181 | 259 |
| 2025 | 192 | 246 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Roc
- Esperanto: Roĥo
- French: Roch
- Hungarian: Rókus
- Italian: Rocco
- Polish: Roch
- Portuguese: Roque
- Russian: Рох
- Spanish: Roque

## People named Rocco

- Rocco Shein, Estonian footballer (born 2003)
- Rocco Ríos Novo, American-Argentine soccer player
- Rocco Grimaldi, American ice hockey player (1993-)
- Rocco Steele, American pornographic actor and film director
- Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player and manager
- Rocco Reed, American pornographic actor
- Rocco Zikarsky, Australian basketball player (born 2006)
- Rocco Petrone, American aerospace engineer (1926-2006)
- Luka Magnotta, Canadian murderer, model and pornographic actor

## 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.