Rochelle
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from La Rochelle or some French place by a rock (roche, Norman roque); first attested William de Rokella (Rochella) 1175 P (Beds)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹoʊʃɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rochelle is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 493 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rochellé in ZA South Africa.
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)
from La Rochelle or some French place by a rock (roche, Norman roque); first attested William de Rokella (Rochella) 1175 P (Beds)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Rochelle is read(measured from records)
Rochelle is one spelling over 2 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.
- English56%
from La Rochelle or some French place by a rock (roche, Norman roque); first attested William de Rokella (Rochella) 1175 P (Beds)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
French: from La Rochelle, a fishing port
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A surname from Old French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.5%
Forme féminine de Roch; origine germanique, « gloire ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Dérivé de Roche, nom d’origine romane.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
Rochelle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 49K | — | 135 |
| US United States | 40,162 | 1 in 8.3K | 40K | Rochelle | 493 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Rochellé | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 7 | Rochelle | 204 |
| AU Australia | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 3 | Rochelle | 188 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 18 | — | 105 |
| GY Guyana | 136 | 1 in 5.5K | 136 | — | 5 |
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; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); 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)
Rochelle 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.
Of uncertain origin, probably a feminine diminutive form of the French boy’s name Roch (from Germanic hrok ‘rest’), borne by a 14th-century saint, patron of the sick. This girl’s name is little used in France but common in North America. It may in part represent a respelling of pRachelle.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Rochelle Hudsonb. 1916USAmerican actress (1916–1972)
- Rochelle Oliverb. 1937USAmerican acting coach and former actress
- Chellie Pingreeb. 1955USnot in their usual nameU.S. Representative from Maine
- Rochelle Stevensb. 1966USAmerican athlete
- Rochelle P. Walenskyb. 1969USAmerican medical scientist
- Rochelle Aytesb. 1976USAmerican actress
- Rochelle Maria Raob. 1988INIndian actress
- Rochelle Humesb. 1989GBEnglish singer and presenter (born 1989)
- Kaitlyn Deverb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1996)
- Kaylee McKeownb. 2001AUnot in their usual nameAustralian swimmer
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 66 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 189 | #1,042 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 136 | #458 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 30 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1998 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2017 | 3 | #808 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2011 | 3 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1998 | 3 | #351 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1979 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Rochelle mean, and where does it come from?
- from La Rochelle or some French place by a rock (roche, Norman roque); first attested William de Rokella (Rochella) 1175 P (Beds) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How common is the name Rochelle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 40,162 people named Rochelle in 2020, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Rochelle?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹoʊʃɛl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rochelle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Rochelle in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Rochelle?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rochelleThe 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, “Rochelle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.