Rodrigues
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rodrigues has been given to 109 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 1978, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Rodrigues, 2000
1 in 630,000
Rodrigues 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rodrigues?
Rodrigues had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 630,000
- 6 of 3,778,496 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 327,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 436,510 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rodrigues sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rodrigues. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rodriguess were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rodrigues was born before 1979 — so the typical Rodrigues is around 46 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 109
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (56).
Is Rodrigues 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1978 (11)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.8% average annual change
Spellings of Rodrigues
Rodrigues is not the most common spelling — Rodriquez is, with 59.3% against Rodrigues's 4.2%.
Rodrigues around the world
Where Rodrigues 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.
- France1963–2008#5,024in 2008
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Rodrigues by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rodrigues
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rodrigues
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.