Rodel

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Rodel has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Rodel, 2023

1 in 552,000

Rodel over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rodel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rodel means

Rodel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rodel is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 boys were recorded with the name Rodel between 1970 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1982; its best national rank was #4,179 in 1982.

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.

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How common is Rodel?

Rodel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 285,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rodel 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rodel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rodels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rodel was born before 1986 — so the typical Rodel is around 39 today.

Median birth year: 1986; About 39 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 108; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Rodel 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1982 (10)
Years since peak: 43; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,179; 1982

Spellings of Rodel

Rodel is not the most common spelling — Roger is, with 34.3% against Rodel's <0.01%.

Roger34.3%442,142
Joel21.7%279,655
Rodney19.2%247,150
Ryder5.2%66,639
Noel4.0%52,096
Romeo2.1%26,864
Rodger1.7%21,556
Royal1.6%20,072

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 Rodel is used

Across 1910–2025, Rodel was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,199,934 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 100,000
2California1 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. Rodel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rodel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,179; 1982
Peak year: 1982; 10 that year
First recorded: 1970
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 108
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rodel

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

Rodny Fadel Rody Rodas Rodrygo Rodin Yidel Rodert Raydel Cadel Rodner Jaydel Yadel Rodnie Roddie Raidel Roddy Audel Abdel Rodolph Kordel Rodrico Jadel Rodion

Sibling names for Rodel

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

For a sister

Eboni Lyndsay Shamika Afton Tanesha Christopher Kandi Matthew

For a brother

Jamaal Donnell Jerrod Chauncey Leopoldo Jerod Dusty Marques

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