Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Rocky” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rocky” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rocky” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rocky” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rocky” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rocky” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rocky” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rocky” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1919 12 0.000005687 12 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 14 0.000005878 14 -100%
1925 18 0.000007714 18 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 18 0.000007761 18 -100%
1928 17 0.000007519 17 -100%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 -100%
1930 18 0.000008096 18 -100%
1931 15 0.000007128 15 -100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 -100%
1933 28 0.000014004 28 -100%
1934 26 0.000012519 26 -100%
1935 26 0.000012441 26 -100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 -100%
1937 21 0.000009856 21 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 27 0.000012254 27 -100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 -100%
1941 28 0.000011492 28 -100%
1942 49 0.000017937 49 -100%
1943 50 0.000017714 50 -100%
1944 54 0.000020074 54 -100%
1945 85 0.00003204 85 -100%
1946 98 0.00003067 98 -100%
1947 178 0.000049413 178 -100%
1948 208 0.000060246 208 -100%
1949 292 0.000083793 5 287 -97%
1950 306 0.000087345 6 300 -96%
1951 379 0.000102885 379 -100%
1952 546 0.00014376 6 540 -98%
1953 691 0.000179311 7 684 -98%
1954 800 0.000200969 14 786 -96%
1955 866 0.000215687 8 858 -98%
1956 901 0.000218528 11 890 -98%
1957 920 0.000218936 11 909 -98%
1958 789 0.000190861 9 780 -98%
1959 845 0.000203223 845 -100%
1960 871 0.000209687 12 859 -97%
1961 729 0.000175989 729 -100%
1962 560 0.000138773 560 -100%
1963 531 0.000134152 10 521 -96%
1964 462 0.000118839 8 454 -97%
1965 378 0.000104263 7 371 -96%
1966 302 0.00008689 302 -100%
1967 272 0.00008012 272 -100%
1968 243 0.000071927 243 -100%
1969 274 0.000078842 7 267 -95%
1970 260 0.000072092 6 254 -95%
1971 239 0.000069631 239 -100%
1972 230 0.000073179 230 -100%
1973 225 0.00007458 225 -100%
1974 216 0.000071053 8 208 -93%
1975 334 0.000110618 334 -100%
1976 409 0.000134792 6 403 -97%
1977 571 0.000179758 6 565 -98%
1978 565 0.000178016 12 553 -96%
1979 663 0.000199279 7 656 -98%
1980 607 0.000176223 9 598 -97%
1981 601 0.000173731 8 593 -97%
1982 599 0.000170754 9 590 -97%
1983 492 0.000142059 6 486 -98%
1984 431 0.00012354 5 426 -98%
1985 411 0.000115155 411 -100%
1986 410 0.000115263 410 -100%
1987 316 0.000087641 316 -100%
1988 296 0.000080107 296 -100%
1989 228 0.000059306 228 -100%
1990 235 0.000059456 235 -100%
1991 209 0.000053655 209 -100%
1992 189 0.000049202 189 -100%
1993 203 0.000053842 203 -100%
1994 175 0.000047073 175 -100%
1995 190 0.000051882 190 -100%
1996 142 0.000038934 142 -100%
1997 142 0.000039164 142 -100%
1998 140 0.000038062 140 -100%
1999 131 0.000035464 131 -100%
2000 172 0.000045504 172 -100%
2001 159 0.000042475 159 -100%
2002 148 0.00003959 148 -100%
2003 160 0.00004208 160 -100%
2004 159 0.000041613 159 -100%
2005 180 0.000046816 180 -100%
2006 189 0.000047773 189 -100%
2007 216 0.000054031 216 -100%
2008 197 0.000050119 197 -100%
2009 187 0.000048951 187 -100%
2010 163 0.000044105 163 -100%
2011 186 0.00005085 186 -100%
2012 188 0.000051403 188 -100%
2013 197 0.000054037 197 -100%
2014 211 0.000056929 211 -100%
2015 237 0.000064038 6 231 -95%
2016 217 0.000059149 217 -100%
2017 227 0.000063475 10 217 -91%
2018 250 0.000071106 13 237 -90%
2019 283 0.000081534 16 267 -89%
2020 285 0.000085315 22 263 -85%
2021 293 0.000086483 27 266 -82%
2022 304 0.000089857 36 268 -76%
2023 293 0.000088488 31 262 -79%
2024 457 0.000137299 39 418 -83%

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