Brock
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning badger or brook.
How Brock has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #449 |
| 2016 | #449 |
| 2017 | #521 |
| 2018 | #549 |
| 2019 | #601 |
| 2020 | #687 |
| 2021 | #768 |
| 2022 | #783 |
| 2023 | #752 |
| 2024 | #705 |
| 2025 | #810 |
Brock by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Brock. In the US, 547 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 1,377 babies in 2003, making it a 2000s name.
At its height, in 2005, about 1 in 1,700 American boys born that year was called Brock.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brock. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean water
Like Brock, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Maxwellgreat spring; place name3,118 in the US (2017)
- Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
- Brooksof the small stream1,938 in the US (2017)
- Beckettbee keeper or stream; a surname used as a given name1,763 in the US (2017)
- Beckhamhomestead with a stream1,280 in the US (2017)
- Wadeto go or ford across water899 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Brock
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