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Rocio vs Rockney

American parents have registered 13,762 Rocios since 1880, against 109 Rockneys. Rocio is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rocio Rockney

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 79 years in which either name was published, Rocio for 70 years and Rockney for 9 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Rocio Rockney
Total US births 13,762109
Most in one year 48013
Babies in 2025 46under 5
Estimated living today 13,00070
Median age today 3370
Peak year 19921949
Best rank 528th girls2,123rd boys
Rank in 2025 3,342ndunranked
First recorded 19521943
Girls / boys 13,336 / 4260 / 109

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 Rockneys alive today are over 70; half the Rocios are over 33. That is 37 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 Rockney.