Rock

Rock is the 1,885th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,692 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,000.

By the numbers

People: 18,692
Rank: 1,885th
How common: 1 in 16,000
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an English surname, from the noun rock. Compare Roach.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.5%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Rock

Bob Rock (born 1954)Canadian record producer
Jay Rock (born 1985)American rapper
Aesop Rock (born 1976)American rapper and producer
Joseph Rock (1884–1962)Austrian-American scientist-explorer
Pete Rock (born 1970)American record producer
Blossom Rock (1895–1978)American actress
Andrew Rock (born 1982)American sprinter
Mick Rock (1948–2021)British photographer, music video director

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

Surnames like Rock

Also a first name

Rock has been given to 2,681 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1957. 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.