Name

Name BROCK

Between 1880 and 2019 there were 45,824 births of Brock in the countries below, which represents an average of 330 births of children bearing the first name Brock per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 468 births.

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Prénom Brock
In Italiano

Nome Brock

Information about the first name Brock

The first name Brock has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name Brock is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 5 letters including 1 vowel and 4 consonants

Brock in Japanese ^*

Romaji	burokku
Katakana	ブロック
Hiragana	ぶろっく
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Brock in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Brock

English

Etymology

From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Anagrams

Borck

Noun

brock (plural brocks)
(Britain) a male badger.
(archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
(obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹɒk/
(General American) IPA(key): /bɹɑk/
Rhymes: -ɒk

Verb

brock (third-person singular simple present brocks, present participle brocking, simple past and past participle brocked)
To taunt.
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, p.112)
Then other boys noticed that he had a softness for me, and brocked us both, so that I, who had been as unconscious as ever of anything erotic, suddenly learnt what was going on &, by some profound power of suggestion, what my feelings actually were.

General

Etymology

From Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”).

Scots

Etymology

Old Scots brok or broke, from Old English broc, Scottish Gaelic broc (“badger”).

Etymology (Noun)

brock (plural brocks)
badger
a despised person

Etymology (Noun)

brock (plural brocks)
leftovers, scraps of bread or meat
rubbish, (especially) something broken
something or someone of little worth, small potatoes

Popularity of the name Brock

Number of BROCK births per year

Popularity of the name Brock

Total births of Brock by country

		Births with the first name Brock
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2019	38,745 0
	Australia 1944 - 2019	2,916 0
	Ontario 1913 - 2018	2,206 0
	British Columbia 1919 - 2019	675 0
	Alberta 1980 - 2019	655 2
	New Zealand 1900 - 2019	421 0
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2019	173 0
	Quebec 1980 - 2019	31 0

Popularity of the name Brock

Total births of Brock by country (last available year)

		Births with the first name Brock
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 2019	405 0
	Ontario 2018	27 0
	Alberta 2019	14 0
	United Kingdom 2019	12 0
	British Columbia 2019	9 0
	Quebec 2019	1 0