girls:
364 births since 1949
#5352 (6th percentile)
boys:
27.7k births since 1913
#687 (85th percentile)
overall:
28.1k births since 1913
#1517 (80th percentile)
The name Rocky is the #1,517 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,107 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 80.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #687 (85.0% percentile) for all time with 27,743 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,352 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 364 births since 1949.
Rocky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1949 for girls).
The name Rocky has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.3% of babies named Rocky were boys.
For boys, Rocky reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 63.2% percentile (ranked #243) with 415 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 415 births per million (ranked 63.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rocky ranks #658 for boys (27.8% percentile) with 142 births per million, which is 34.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rocky reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #927) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rocky ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 88.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rocky".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rocky is pronounced as RAH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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