Ŕock

given name · Latin script

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

Ŕock is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Mo.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 125K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 206as Rok
  • HRCroatia1 in 14Kas Rok

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ŕock itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Slovenia (measured from records)

10,208 named Rok, 2025

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RokLatin(measured from records)
록영Hangul(measured from records)
РокCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rok in US United States, SI Slovenia, HR Croatia and 3 more.

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)

Derivation of Ŕock: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ŕock
  1. Middle Englishrocke“rock formation”(measured from records)
  2. Old English*rocc“rock”(measured from records)
  3. Anglo-Normanroque(measured from records)
  4. Medieval Latinroccaattested 767(measured from records)

From Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Modern French roc, roche, rocher), from Medieval Latin rocca (attested 767), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be of Celtic (in particular, perhaps Gaulish) origin (compare Breton roc'h). Related also to Middle Low German rocke (“rock ledge”).

Sources 8

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ŕock 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 Ŕock is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#810,208as Rok1 in 20610KRok117
US United States—2,6611 in 125K19KRok88
BR Brazil—2,1771 in 97K2.2K——
CN China—≈960 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Rok7
KR South Korea—≈360 est.≈1 in 143K—Rok73
HR Croatia#625305as Rok1 in 14K346Rok33
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈89 est.≈1 in 43K—Rok3
XK Kosovo—≈17 est.≈1 in 116K18—2

10,208 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)

Ŕock is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname84 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Anguilla, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Rock, Roeck, Röck, Raka, Rook

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ŕock under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ŕock mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English rocke, rokke (“rock formation”), from Old English *rocc (“rock”), as in Old English stānrocc (“high stone rock, peak, obelisk”), and also later from Anglo-Norman roque, (compare Mo… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 6 other sources.
Is Ŕock a male or female name?
Ŕock is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ŕock have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Rok, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ŕock most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ŕock is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 97 thousand people — even though Slovenia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ŕock?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,661 people named Ŕock in 2020, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
How common is Ŕock compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Ŕock is the 8th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ŕock” — the 8th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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