Rodricus
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rodricus has been given to 285 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1984, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Rodricus, 2017
1 in 596,000
Rodricus over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rodricus?
Rodricus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rodricus sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rodricus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rodricuss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rodricus was born before 1987 — so the typical Rodricus is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 50.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 285
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (145).
Is Rodricus 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (22)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.3% average annual change
Spellings of Rodricus
Rodricus is not the most common spelling — Rodrick is, with 91.9% against Rodricus's 2.9%.
Where Rodricus is used
Across 1910–2025, Rodricus was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 224,551 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 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. Rodricus has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rodricus by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rodricus
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rodricus
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.