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Rocio vs Rockne

American parents have registered 13,762 Rocios since 1880, against 398 Rocknes. Rocio is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rocio against Rockne, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rocio Rockne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 92 years in which either name was published, Rocio for 66 years and Rockne for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Rocio Rockne
Total US births 13,762398
Most in one year 48017
Babies in 2025 46under 5
Estimated living today 13,000240
Median age today 3368
Peak year 19921931
Best rank 528th girls1,770th boys
Rank in 2025 3,342ndunranked
First recorded 19521931
Girls / boys 13,336 / 4260 / 398

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rocknes alive today are over 68; half the Rocios are over 33. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rocio and Rockne.