Rocky
The boy's name Rocky has been in the national records since 1913, with 29,134 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 568th. About 24,000 Rockys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rocky boys named Rocky
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29,134
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 46
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 252nd
- Rank in 2025
- 568th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 447 / 28,687
How old the living Rockys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29,134 babies given the name since 1913, about 24,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 4,700 of them are children and 6,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Diminutives with -y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rockys
- Rocky Marciano (1923–1969)American heavyweight boxing champion
- Rocky Carroll (born 1963)American actor
- Rocky Graziano (1919–1990)American boxer
- Rocky Gray (born 1974)American musician
- Rocky Johnson (1944–2020)Canadian professional wrestler
- Rocky Juarez (born 1980)boxer
- Rocky Lockridge (1959–2019)American boxer
- Rocky De La Fuente (born 1954)American businessman and perennial candidate
People named Rocky with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rocky is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rocky is most concentrated in Oklahoma (3.0×), Idaho (2.4×), Montana (2.1×), Utah (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Rocky peaked:
Rocky elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rocky | 995 | 522nd |
| France boys | Rocky | 330 | 565th |
| Scotland boys | Rocky | 19 | 363rd |
| England and Wales girls | Rocky | 4 | 4,709th |
| Ireland boys | Rocky | 3 | 785th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rocky among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Rocky | 22 | 33 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Rocky against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.