Rocke

surname · Latin script

Meaning: dative of Rock

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɹɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rocke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 388K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 34K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 142K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

857 people, 2010

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Röcke in DE Germany.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

dative of Rock

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rocke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Rocke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8571 in 388K933Rocke217
DE Germany≈340 est.≈1 in 233K—Röcke18
GB United Kingdom≈260 est.≈1 in 251K350Rocke79
AU Australia≈150 est.≈1 in 176K—Rocke73
CA Canada≈120 est.≈1 in 319K—Rocke33
IE Ireland≈32 est.≈1 in 160K—Rocke10
GY Guyana221 in 34K22—1
JM Jamaica≈20 est.≈1 in 142K—Rocke1

857 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rocke is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written RÖçkê, Ròçke, Röckê, Rocké, Röcke

  • German surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Rôckè

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Röcke

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Röcke

  • Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Röcke

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Röçke, Rockễ

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rocke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In yol, shipwreck

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Charles Rocke, b. 1800Gotthelf Moritz Rocke, b. 1816Dorothee Rocke, b. 1949Colin Rocke, b. 1968

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Rocke,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Rocke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020933#27,373
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000875#26,267
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010857#27,974
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002350#14,737
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202522#603
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Rocke?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɑk/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Rocke mean, and where does it come from?
dative of Rock Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Rocke have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Rocke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rocke.
Where is Rocke most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rocke is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rocke?
In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Rocke in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rocke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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