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Brock

Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”*

CommonRare
Rank 2015: #449, 2016: #449, 2017: #521, 2018: #549, 2019: #601, 2020: #687, 2021: #768, 2022: #782, 2023: #752, 2024: #702, 2025: #8101 in 5,582 boys in the US, 2025#810 · falling · was #449 in 2015
CommonRare
Rank 2015: #2,319, 2016: #1,804, 2017: #1,398, 2018: #3,412, 2019: #1,869, 2020: #2,228, 2021: #2,493, 2022: #3,450, 2023: #2,814, 2025: #5,1371 in 90,645 boys in E&W, 2025#5,137 · falling · was #2,319 in 2015

Boy’s name · from a surname · /bɹɒk/

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What Brock means

Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”

variant of Brook || As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above.

Source: Wiktionary, “Brock” (revision 90395535) and “Brook” (revision 92136641), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Brock?

US 2025
#810
306 babies
▼ 108 vs 2024
England & Wales 2025
#5137
3 babies
Scotland
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Not listed

US: Falling: down from #449 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2319 in 2015.

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US, 1880–2025England & Wales, 1996–2025Babies per 1,000 boys born. Dot: biggest US share (2003)

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 1,378 boys got the name (#243 that year). First in the US records in 1914.

How common

  • About 1 in 5,582 baby boys in the US in 2025
  • About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (1.86 per 1,000 boys), IA (0.58 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.53 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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FewerMore · grey: under 5 babies, not listed

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Brock is #810 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).

Rank 2025BabiesHow commonRank 2015
US#8103061 in 5,582#449
England & Wales#513731 in 90,645#2319
Scotland––––

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Brock were boys.

GirlsBoys
US 20250306
England & Wales 202503
US all years since 18807543,540
England & Wales since 19960205

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

UK/bɹɒk/
US/bɹɑk/

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

  • Breck41 US
  • Bruk13 US · 8 E&W
  • Brook15 US · 5 E&W
  • Brick7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brock

Boys

  • Skyler#783Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #360 in 2015, #783 in 2025
  • Blake#316“black”
  • Donovan#495“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”
  • Gage#973Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 2,939 babies; 235 in 2025
  • Devin#548“fortuneteller”
  • Dane#819Variant of Dean, meaning “valley”

For a sister

  • Leslie#712“garden of hollies”
  • Sydney#348Variant of Sidney, meaning “wide + island”
  • Paige#346possibly “servant”
  • Haley#861“hay field”
  • Macy#718Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,483 babies; 390 in 2025
  • Taylor#403From the word “tailor”

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brock’s. Rank is US 2025.

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