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Roddy

#8,111 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Roderick

Roddy has been given to 2,541 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #8,111 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Roddy, 2025

1 in 332,000

Roddy over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roddy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Roderick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roddy means

Roddy is a diminutive of Roderick.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Roddy → Roderick → *Hrōþirīks. The family’s meaning is “fame + king, ruler”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements hrōþiz and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Roddy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roderick and Rodger.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,541 boys were recorded with the name Roddy between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 1960; its best national rank was #751 in 1946.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,377 in 2020 to #8,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,395 in 2015 to #8,111 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Roddy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,111
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roddy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roddy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roddys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roddy was born before 1959 — so the typical Roddy is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,750
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (566).

Is Roddy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,266
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,284
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.6%
Peak was 1960 (86)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#751
1946

Spellings of Roddy

Roddy is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 20.7% against Roddy's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Roddy is used

Across 1910–2025, Roddy was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 161,258 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6California1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Roddy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roddy around the world

Where Roddy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #367
    in 2025
  • France
    1970–2017
    #5,782
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1948–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Roddy

People whose public names include Roddy, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Roddy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Roddy. Linked forms have their own page here.

RoddRodyRuddyRoddie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Roddy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,266
Best rank ever
#751
1946
Peak year
1960
86 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,541
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Roddy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RodericRodyRodmanRodrickRuddyRodgerRodellRoddBuddyRodriquezRodricEddyTeddyRodrigoRodRodolfoRoddieRodgersFreddyRodelRoddrickRodertYiddyRodny

Names with a curve like Roddy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Roddy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VicDonnaKenneySusanSandraKarenMelRandleDarelSharonJameMaury

Sibling names for Roddy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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