Rocky

Where Rocky comes from

Diminutives with -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rocky
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,496 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Rocky Marciano born
    American heavyweight boxing champion
  3. 1955
    Peak, #240
    858 babies named Rocky — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1963
    Rocky Carroll born
    American actor
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #409.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Robert, Ricky, Rocco, Roch, and Rock.
Namesakes
  • Rocky Marciano · American heavyweight boxing champion, 1923–1969
  • Rocky Carroll · American actor, born 1963
  • Rocky Graziano · American boxer, 1919–1990
  • Rocky Johnson · Canadian professional wrestler, 1944–2020
  • Rocky De La Fuente · American businessman and perennial candidate, born 1954

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.