Rochester
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Rochester, Kent, probably ‘Roman town or fort called Rovi’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rochester is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- MNMongolia
- FIFinland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Rochester, Kent, probably ‘Roman town or fort called Rovi’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Rochester is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Rochester, Kent; first attested Turoldus (de) Rouecestra 1086 DB (Ess)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Old English: rocky fortress or camp
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Robert Rochesterb. 1494English Catholic retainer of Mary I of England
- William B. Rochesterb. 1789USAmerican lawyer and politician (1789–1838)
- Anna Rochesterb. 1880USAmerican activist
- George Rochesterb. 1908GBBritish physicist
- Nathaniel Rochesterb. 1919USAmerican computer scientist (1919–2001)
- Paul Rochesterb. 1938USfootball player from the United States (1938-2020)
- Art Rochesterb. 1944USsound engineer
- Lisa Blunt Rochesterb. 1962USAmerican politician (born 1962)
- Ramzb. 1997GBnot in their usual nameBritish rapper and songwriter
- Asia Hogan-Rochesterb. 1999CACanadian rugby sevens player
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 32 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rochester mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Rochester, Kent, probably ‘Roman town or fort called Rovi’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Rochester have the most bearers?
- Rochester is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Rochester?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rochesterThe 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
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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, “Rochester”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.