# Rocky (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rocky/  
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 | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 29,134 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 28,687 / 447 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 999, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | 7,247 |
| 1981 | 8 | 7,959 |
| 1982 | 9 | 7,330 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,932 |
| 1984 | 5 | 11,721 |
| 2015 | 6 | 16,040 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,554 |
| 2018 | 13 | 8,520 |
| 2019 | 16 | 7,283 |
| 2020 | 22 | 5,624 |
| 2021 | 27 | 4,934 |
| 2022 | 36 | 4,094 |
| 2023 | 31 | 4,539 |
| 2024 | 40 | 3,805 |
| 2025 | 43 | 3,564 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 186 | 1,027 |
| 2012 | 188 | 1,034 |
| 2013 | 197 | 998 |
| 2014 | 211 | 989 |
| 2015 | 231 | 927 |
| 2016 | 217 | 955 |
| 2017 | 217 | 960 |
| 2018 | 237 | 910 |
| 2019 | 267 | 843 |
| 2020 | 264 | 860 |
| 2021 | 266 | 870 |
| 2022 | 268 | 884 |
| 2023 | 263 | 886 |
| 2024 | 419 | 656 |
| 2025 | 520 | 568 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 812 |
| 2012 | 55 | 634 |
| 2013 | 50 | 666 |
| 2014 | 40 | 781 |
| 2015 | 35 | 873 |
| 2016 | 54 | 647 |
| 2017 | 34 | 906 |
| 2018 | 49 | 702 |
| 2019 | 45 | 731 |
| 2020 | 45 | 723 |
| 2021 | 40 | 805 |
| 2022 | 53 | 656 |
| 2023 | 51 | 679 |
| 2024 | 71 | 538 |
| 2025 | 74 | 522 |

## People named Rocky

- Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight boxing champion (1923-1969)
- Rocky Carroll, American actor
- Rocky Graziano, American boxer (1919–1990)
- Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (1944-2020)
- Rocky Lockridge, American boxer (1959–2019)
- Rocky De La Fuente, American businessman and perennial candidate (born 1954)
- Rocky Anderson, American politician
- Rocky Lynch, American musician
- Rocky Colavito, American baseball player and coach
- Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer
- Rocky Siberie, Curaçaoan association football 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.