Rocky
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rocky is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 16K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 6.6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 457 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled রকি in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rocky 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Rocky | 39 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | রকি | 39 |
| US United States | 21,181 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Rocky | 457 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 486 | Rocky | 142 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 4 | Rocky | 146 |
| TD Chad | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Rocky | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 20 | Rocky | 58 |
| GY Guyana | 102 | 1 in 7.4K | 102 | — | 4 |
| MO Macao | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Rocky | 4 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Rocky is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Mountains, mtn. range, N. America;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Nickname from Rock/Rockwell
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In English, Teutonic: rest
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In German, in den i97oer-Jahre entlehnter männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Rocky Grazianob. 1919USAmerican boxer (1919–1990)
- Rocky Marcianob. 1923USAmerican heavyweight boxing champion (1923-1969)
- Rocky Colavitob. 1933USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Rocky Johnsonb. 1944CACanadian professional wrestler (1944-2020)
- Rocky Andersonb. 1951USAmerican politician
- Rocky Mortonb. 1955GBBritish film and television director
- Rocky Schenckb. 1960USAmerican photographer and film director
- Rocky Carrollb. 1963USAmerican actor
- Rocky Marshallb. 1967GBBritish actor
- Michael Choprab. 1983GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1983)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21K | #1,545 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 520 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 364 | #1,545 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 102 | #492 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 32 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2022 | 9 | #363 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #922 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Rocky mean, and where does it come from?
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rocky have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 116 thousand people named Rocky in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rocky.
- How common is the name Rocky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,181 people named Rocky in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rockyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rocky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.