Rochelle

3,252 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rochelle in the 2020 census, making it the 9,557th most common in the country. That is about one person in 91,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,252
Rank: 9,557th
How common: 1 in 91,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

Habitational or topographic name from places in France, La Rochelle, from Old French rochelle diminutive form of roche (“rock”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rochelle described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.2%
Black, not Hispanic 25.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Rochelle

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945)French writer

People named Rochelle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rochelle

Also a first name

Rochelle has been given to 47,395 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1969. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.