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Rodrick

#4,358 in 2025Boys' name

Fame + king, ruler, through Roderick

Rodrick has been given to 8,968 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #4,358 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 273 recorded.

Babies named Rodrick, 2025

1 in 138,000

Rodrick over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rodrick: meaning, origin, and history

Fame + king, ruler, through Roderick

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rodrick means

Rodrick belongs to the name family reached through Rodrick → Roderick → *Hrōþirīks. Its meaning is “fame + king, ruler”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rodrick is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roderick and *Hrōþirīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,963 boys were recorded with the name Rodrick between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 273 in 1977; its best national rank was #492 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,649 in 2020 to #4,358 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,451 in 2015 to #4,358 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Rodrick between 1974 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1974; its best national rank was #9,841 in 1974.

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 Rodrick?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,358
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rodrick 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rodrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rodricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rodrick was born before 1980 — so the typical Rodrick is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,574
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (2,211).

Is Rodrick 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
−770
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,709
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,907
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.8%
Peak was 1977 (273)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#492
1977

Spellings of Rodrick

Rodrick is not the most common spelling — Fredrick is, with 35.2% against Rodrick's 4.9%.

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 Rodrick is used

Across 1910–2025, Rodrick was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 23,654 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,263
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 6,250
  3. 3Alabama1 in 7,692
  4. 4Georgia1 in 9,091
  5. 5Texas1 in 9,091
  6. 6Florida1 in 11,111
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 12,500
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 14,286

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. Rodrick has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rodrick around the world

Where Rodrick 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.

  • France
    1979–2022
    #5,323
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Rodrick

People whose public names include Rodrick, 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.

Rodrick in other languages

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

RodRodrikBrodrickRoderickRoderikRoderyk

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

Rodrick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,358
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,709
Best rank ever
#492
1977
Peak year
1977
273 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,963
Count in 2025
24

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,841
1974
Peak year
1974
5 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rodrick

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

RoderickRoddrickRodrigoRodolfoDarrickRodericCedrickRodgerMerrickGarrickDedrickChadwickDomenickRodderickKedrickJerrickBroderickRoddyDerickMavrickFinnickKenrickRodriquezChadrick

Names with a curve like Rodrick

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

BrantErichJedErinAndreaWilfredoBradlyDarrickGarrickBryonEdwardoJayme

Sibling names for Rodrick

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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