Boy name origins & meanings
- Italian : Rest
- Old English : Rock fortress
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Rock
Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name for someone who lived near a notable crag or outcrop, from Middle English rokke ‘rock’ (see Roach), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Rock in Northumberland.
- English : variant of Roke (see Rokes 1).
- English : metonymic occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from Middle English rok ‘distaff’ (from Old Norse rokkr or Middle Dutch rocke or an unattested Old English cognate).
- German : from a short form of the personal name Rocco (see Roche 3).
- German : metonymic occupational name for a tailor, from Middle High German rok, roc ‘skirt’, ‘gown’.
- German (Röck) : variant of Roche 3.