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    The surname Rockey

    A surname, carried by 2,670 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex R200

    Rockey: #11,736 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rockey #11,736, 2,670 people Rockey: #11,736 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rockey #11,736, 2,670 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rockey is more common than 92.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,670 people named Rockey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 115,635 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,489.

    #11,736
    rank among US surnames
    2,670
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #11,578)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,728Currey2,672115,548
    #11,733Hoskin2,671115,592
    #11,736Rockey2,670115,635
    #11,739Degroat2,669115,678
    #11,743Manzi2,668115,722

    Who is named Rockey

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Rockey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rockey

    Rockey has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Rockey?
    2,670 people in the United States had the surname Rockey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 115,635 Americans. It ranked 11,736th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rockey?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rockey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Rockey getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,670 in 2010, up 7.3%.