Rocco arrives smelling of basil and old stone. The name descends from the Germanic hrok, "rest," and belonged to a fourteenth-century French pilgrim saint who tended plague victims and became the patron of dogs, the unjustly accused, and anyone on a long journey. Italian immigrants carried San Rocco across the Atlantic, and the name took root in Brooklyn and the Bronx long before Madonna gave her son the name in 2000. Ranked 500, Rocco has stepped neatly out of its mid-century neighborhood and into broader use. Two muscular syllables with a wink and an espresso.
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- Leandro
- Adan
- Atreus
- Ronin
- Collin
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- Atreus
- Ronin
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