Rodina

Girls' name

Feminine form of Roderick

Rodina has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 2013, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Rodina, 2024

1 in 669,000

Rodina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rodina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Roderick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rodina means

Rodina is a feminine form of Roderick.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rodina is used in Scottish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roderick.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 145 girls were recorded with the name Rodina between 1953 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2013; its best national rank was #6,352 in 1953.

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 Rodina?

Rodina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rodina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rodina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rodinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rodina was born before 2014 — so the typical Rodina is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
145
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Choose a decade

2010s — 64.1% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Rodina 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
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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 2013 (18)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,352
1953

Spellings of Rodina

Rodina is not the most common spelling — Robin is, with 44.8% against Rodina's 0.02%.

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.

Rodina around the world

Where Rodina 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
    2011–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    2013–2022
    #6,988
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2012–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rodina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,352
1953
Peak year
2013
18 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
145
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rodina

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

Sibling names for Rodina

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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