How rare is the name Rochelle?

40,162 people in the United States have the first name Rochelle, about 1 in 7,520. It ranks #1,042 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ROCHELLE

#1,042

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
40,162
About
1 in 7,520
This common or more
70.6%
Who bears it

Of the 40,162 people named Rochelle, 56.1% reported their origin as White, 27.5% as Black and 6.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rochelle peaked in 1969, when 1,284 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19002025
Peak year
1969
Births that year
1,284
In 2025*
30 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 47,395 babies have been given the name since 1900. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Rochelle by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #517. The largest share of babies named Rochelle, 31.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1900s#2,67850
1910s#2,101300
1920s#2,103441
1930s#7832,346
1940s#6314,564
1950s#5946,949
1960s#5239,970
1970s#5179,154
1980s#6297,342
1990s#1,0614,260
2000s#2,7801,293
2010s#5,503521
2020s#7,275205
Before 19010%
Greatest Generation 1901–271.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.7%
Baby boom 1946–6428.9%
Generation X 1965–8031.8%
Millennials 1981–9621.3%
Generation Z 1997–124.6%
2013 and later1.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Rochelle is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rochelle has been most common in Hawaii (3.3×), District of Columbia (2.2×), and Minnesota (1.7×), and least common in West Virginia (0.13×).

42,871 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Rochelle

#1,040 Paola · 40,331#1,041 Laurel · 40,185#1,043 Frankie · 40,157#1,044 London · 40,126

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rochelle, most common first.

#5,652 Rochel · 2,992#8,920 Roselle · 1,595#10,987 Rochell · 1,187#14,685 Roshelle · 798#18,034 Roshell · 602#20,915 Rochele · 490#24,570 Rozelle · 391#30,089 Rockell · 291

Also a last name

As a last name, Rochelle ranks #9,557 of 156,621, with 3,252 people. See Rochelle as a last name

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