Rochelle

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rochelle: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rochelle: Recorded since 1970, its highest recorded position is #32, and it stood at #736 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#32highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#290
1997	#283
1998	#330
1999	#483
2000	#582
2001	#504
2002	#564
2003	#545
2004	#821
2005	#851
2006	#928
2007	#882
2008	#1584
2009	#1411
2010	#1520
2011	#1374
2012	#1483
2013	#1484
2014	#2464
2015	#2195
2016	#2367
2017	#2502
2018	#2340
2019	#3541
2020	#2615
2021	#3192
2022	#4645
2023	#2689
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 39 years from 1986 to 2024.

In 2024: #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3318 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1970–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1970
First recorded at #81 among girls in New Zealand in 1970 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Girls
Highest recorded1970–1991
Highest recorded position: #32 among girls in New Zealand, in 1972 (recorded 1970–1991).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rochelle appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 983 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Girls, from 1970.

Rochelle across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rochelle's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#458 (1986)	#423 (1991)	#736 (2024)	8 of 39	31 (1986–2024)	5 (1991)
England and Wales · Girls	#290 (1996)	#283 (1997)	#3318 (2024)	29 of 29	983 (1996–2024)	128 (1996)
New Zealand · Girls	#81 (1970)	#32 (1972)	#82 (1991)	21 of 22	2,086 (1970–1991)	192 (1972)

Rochelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rochelle in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	423	4 of 10	106
2000sbusiest	381	10 of 10	38
2010s	143	10 of 10	14
2020s	36	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 38 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 47, from 107 to 60.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rochelle appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1970 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #32 in New Zealand in 1972.

Rochelle's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1483	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1374	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1411	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#882	35	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#851	33	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#821	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#545	56	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#564	52	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#504	58	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#582	46	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#483	60	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#330	107	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#283	128	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#290	128	High	Verified
1991	New Zealand	female	#82	65	High	Verified
1989	New Zealand	female	#78	68	High	Verified
1988	New Zealand	female	#80	68	High	Verified
1987	New Zealand	female	#79	65	High	Verified
1986	New Zealand	female	#72	74	High	Verified
1985	New Zealand	female	#66	78	High	Verified
1984	New Zealand	female	#72	77	High	Verified
1983	New Zealand	female	#67	74	High	Verified
1982	New Zealand	female	#49	92	High	Verified
1981	New Zealand	female	#49	92	High	Verified
1980	New Zealand	female	#56	86	High	Verified
1979	New Zealand	female	#66	75	High	Verified
1978	New Zealand	female	#71	69	High	Verified
1977	New Zealand	female	#55	99	High	Verified
1976	New Zealand	female	#51	109	High	Verified
1975	New Zealand	female	#43	128	High	Verified
1974	New Zealand	female	#41	138	High	Verified
1973	New Zealand	female	#34	178	High	Verified
1972	New Zealand	female	#32	192	High	Verified
1971	New Zealand	female	#40	175	High	Verified
1970	New Zealand	female	#81	84	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#534	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#423	5	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1970 and 2024, ranked in 51 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #32, first reached in 1972.

It held a top-100 place in 21 years, 20 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 192 births, registered in New Zealand in 1972.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1986, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Rocky · #538, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Odhran · #35, 49y
Shelley · #37, 53y
Beverley · #40, 55y
Conan · #24, 54y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Reuben · #32, 43y
Sadhbh · #32, 50y
Billie · #33, 35y
Esme · #33, 33y

Rochelle was ranked #32 in New Zealand · Girls in 1972. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rochelle and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rochelle without appearing here.

Rochelle moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3541 and #5591.
Shauna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #4709.
Brittany Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4645 and #3533 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #4843.
Katrina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2504 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #4192.

Moved ahead of Rochelle

Janice Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #3961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #1948.
Francis Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #4645 and #2488.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #1286.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Rochelle

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Rochelle

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Rochelle went from #290 to #3318 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1970 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #32 in New Zealand in 1972. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rochelle

Rochelle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rochelle across 3 official records

Rochelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rochelle appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Rochelle at a glance

Rochelle across 3 official records

Rochelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rochelle appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Rochelle

Rochelle and the names beside it

Rochelle moved ahead of

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