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The first name 
Rocco

Rocco is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Rocco – popular and common in the US!

The name Rocco isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Rocco ranks 442. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Rocco. In the entire USA, approximately 26,679 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rocco. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Rocco

What does the name 
Rocco mean?

The Italian name Rocco developed from the Germanic name Rochus, possibly derived from hruoh meaning ‘crow, rook’. Rocky is a popular English variant of this name.

In the US, ... Rocco, while rare, has been in use consistently since the late 19th century.

Rocco has 5 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With five letters, the name Rocco is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rocco

If your name is Rocco and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Rocco

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rocco, you can simply say:

Rocket

Orange

Cat

Cat

Orange

This is how the name Rocco is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Rocco in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Rocco

Rocco

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Rocco

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Rocco is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
O
C
C
O

Have you ever waved the name Rocco

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

R
O
C
C
O

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rocco sounds like this: