Rockwell
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Rockwell, Buckinghamshire or Somerset, ‘wood frequented by rooks’ or ‘well frequented by rooks’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rockwell is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 113K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
12,360 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Person from Rockwell, Buckinghamshire or Somerset, ‘wood frequented by rooks’ or ‘well frequented by rooks’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rockwell 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,360 | 1 in 27K | 12K | — | 20 |
| CR Costa Rica | 45 | 1 in 113K | 45 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 2 | — | — |
12,360 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Rockwell 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 English, and Somerset. The former was earlier Rockholt, and is so called from OE hroc rook (perhaps a byname) + holt wood. The second element of the Somerset place is probably (and more predictably) OE well(a) spring, stream (see Well); Augs. (of i); It.: Roccon(i). Patrs. (from i); Low Ger.: Rochs. Rochussen. Rocquette see Roach Roche see Roach Rodaughan see Ready
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Norman, US painter; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Old English: from the rocky well
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
English From The Rocky Well
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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)
- Julius Rockwellb. 1805USAmerican politician (1805-1888)
- Rockwell Kentb. 1882USAmerican artist (1882-1971)
- Norman Rockwellb. 1894USAmerican painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
- George Lincoln Rockwellb. 1918USAmerican founder of the American Nazi Party (1918–1967)
- Robert Rockwellb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920–2003)
- John Rockwellb. 1940USAmerican critic and arts administrator (born 1940)
- Lew Rockwellb. 1944USAmerican libertarian author, editor, and political consultant
- Alexandre Rockwellb. 1956USAmerican film director (1956-)
- David Rockwellb. 1956USAmerican architect and designer
- Sam Rockwellb. 1968USAmerican actor
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 28 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 12K | #2,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,737 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,972 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 45 | #2,264 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #47,355 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #56,377 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #59,840 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Rockwell mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Rockwell, Buckinghamshire or Somerset, ‘wood frequented by rooks’ or ‘well frequented by rooks’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Rockwell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,360 people named Rockwell in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- In which country does Rockwell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Rockwell, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rockwell most common?
- Rockwell is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rockwellThe 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, “Rockwell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.