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Rody

#9,525 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Rodelio or Rodolfo or Rodrigo

Rody has been given to 387 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #9,525 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Rody, 2025

1 in 414,000

Rody over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rody: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Rodelio or Rodolfo or Rodrigo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rody means

Rody is a diminutive of Rodelio or Rodolfo or Rodrigo.

Origin, language, and formation

Rody is used in Cebuano and Tagalog.

Rody comes through English Rody.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rodelio, Rodolfo and Rodrigo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Rody is pronounced /ˈɾodi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 387 boys were recorded with the name Rody between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,296 in 1960.

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 Rody?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,525
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rody 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rody. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rodys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rody was born before 1990 — so the typical Rody is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
353
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2000s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Rody 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
+2,533
Places climbed
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
57.1%
Peak was 1960 (14)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,296
1960

Spellings of Rody

Rody is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 12.3% against Rody's 0.01%.

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.

Rody around the world

Where Rody 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
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1971–2010
    #5,318
    in 2010

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

Rody by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,525
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,296
1960
Peak year
1960
14 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
387
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Rody

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

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Sibling names for Rody

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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