girls:
75 births since 1975
#5641 (1st percentile)
boys:
42.8k births since 1914
#542 (88th percentile)
overall:
42.9k births since 1914
#1187 (85th percentile)
The name Brock is the #1,187 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 42,924 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 84.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #542 (88.2% percentile) for all time with 42,849 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,641 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1975.
Brock first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Brock is available in 98 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (98 years for boys and 13 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brock has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brock reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 71.6% percentile (ranked #241) with 638 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 656 births per million (ranked 70.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brock ranks #591 for boys (35.2% percentile) with 189 births per million, which is 28.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brock reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brock".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brock. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Brock is pronounced as brahk, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is brawk, at 12.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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