Roc
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɔk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- HTHaiti≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 81K
- HRCroatia1 in 146K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rock, stone
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Roc is read(measured from records)
Roc is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roc in French.
- English33%
An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Catalan20%
rock, stone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roc in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roc 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 105 | — | 2 |
| HT Haiti | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | — | 1 |
| US United States | 331 | 1 in 1M | 414 | Roc | 58 |
| ES Spain | 270 | 1 in 185K | 4.4K | Roc | 72 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 425K | — | Roc | 17 |
| HR Croatia | 29 | 1 in 146K | 29 | Roc | 13 |
| SI Slovenia | 8 | 1 in 263K | 8 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)
Roc 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 okz, Latin script form of រោច៑ (“to withdraw”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Cacgia Roglai.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, rock (style of music)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, inflection of rakt:
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)
- Michela Rocb. 1941ITItalian actress (1941-2013)
- Dominique Dupont-Rocb. 1963FRFrench male curler
- Anna Aragonès Rocb. 1971ESSpanish politician
- Agustí Roc Amadorb. 1971ESSpanish ski mountaineer and long-distance runner
- Tasneem Rocb. 1978AUAustralian actress
- Nancy Rocb. 2000CACanadian journalist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 390 | #56,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 363 | #53,420 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 331 | #60,790 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 270 | #13,112 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 270 | #13,085 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 105 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 82 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Roc come from?
- rock, stone Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Roc?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɔk/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Roc mean?
- In English, An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
- What are other forms of the name Roc?
- In the etymology graph, Roque, Roch and Rokus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Roc have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 842 people named Roc in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Roc?
- In the United States, the national register counted 331 people named Roc in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Roc?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rocThe 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, “Roc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.