Bailey vs Rock

Bailey

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official. 

  • A sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin). 

  • An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado. 

  • An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri; named for early settler John Martin Bailey. 

  • An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle). 

  • An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”). 

  • A ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma. 

  • A female given name transferred from the surname. 

  • An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. 

  • A minor city in Fannin County, Texas. 

  • An unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota. 

noun
  • An apple cultivar from New York 

Rock

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A hamlet in Curry Mallet parish, South Somerset district and North Curry parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3222). 

  • A hamlet in Blackwood community, Caerphilly county borough (OS grid ref ST1898). 

  • A village in Rennington parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NU2020). 

  • A town in Rock County, Wisconsin. 

  • Nickname of Gibraltar. 

  • A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rock Township. 

  • A hamlet in Membury parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2702). 

  • The Rock, a village south-west of Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. 

  • An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia. 

  • A town in Wood County, Wisconsin. 

  • A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke ). 

  • An unincorporated community in Maple Ridge Township, Delta County, Michigan. 

  • A coastal village in St Minver Lowlands parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9375). 

  • Nickname of Uluru. 

  • A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7371). 

  • Nickname of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

  • A hamlet north-east of Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot county borough (OS grid ref SS7993). 

  • An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas. 

  • Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA. 

  • A hamlet in Washington parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1214). 

How often have the words Bailey and Rock occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )