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Brock

Brock reached its high-water mark in 2003 at number 243, and has been recorded 43,615 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 810th. About 42,000 Brocks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Brock boys named Brock

By the numbers

Total US births
43,615
Estimated living today
42,000
Median age today
25
Peak year
2003
Best rank
243rd
Rank in 2025
810th
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
75 / 43,540

How old the living Brocks are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 43,615 babies given the name since 1914, about 42,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 540 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Brocks

People named Brock with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Brock is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Brock is most concentrated in Utah (4.8×), Idaho (3.8×), North Dakota (3.2×), Kansas (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2003

The most popular boys’ names the year Brock peaked:

All the names of 2003

Brock elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Brock 205 1,398th
Scotland boys Brock 3 733rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Brock against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.