Roderick
Last seen for girls in 1988 at #10,386 · #1,743 for boys in 2025, 93 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1967 · 1,008 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 47,183since 1880
Roderick over time
Rank among boys' names. Roderick has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,743 | 93 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,902 | 83 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,909 | 82 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,665 | 103 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,700 | 96 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,609 | 100 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,340 | 134 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,352 | 132 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,170 | 160 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,016 | 199 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,070 | 185 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,082 | 178 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,058 | 178 | |
| 2012 | — | #979 | 204 | |
| 2011 | — | #915 | 220 | |
| 2010 | — | #961 | 206 | |
| 2009 | — | #900 | 229 | |
| 2008 | — | #936 | 217 | |
| 2007 | — | #837 | 255 | |
| 2006 | — | #732 | 292 | |
| 2005 | — | #783 | 249 | |
| 2004 | — | #720 | 265 | |
| 2003 | — | #745 | 240 | |
| 2002 | — | #637 | 305 | |
| 2001 | — | #648 | 288 | |
| 2000 | — | #613 | 310 | |
| 1999 | — | #588 | 331 | |
| 1998 | — | #627 | 290 | |
| 1997 | — | #550 | 356 | |
| 1996 | — | #535 | 361 | |
| 1995 | — | #512 | 399 | |
| 1994 | — | #485 | 439 | |
| 1993 | — | #447 | 489 | |
| 1992 | — | #432 | 511 | |
| 1991 | — | #418 | 540 | |
| 1990 | — | #387 | 599 | |
| 1989 | — | #367 | 610 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #360 | 568 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #338 | 597 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #321 | 631 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #308 | 668 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #311 | 629 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #294 | 682 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #279 | 740 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #279 | 742 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #278 | 758 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #275 | 746 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #280 | 691 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #260 | 760 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #253 | 783 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #252 | 796 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | #235 | 879 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #231 | 909 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | #229 | 940 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #223 | 1,057 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | #228 | 1,037 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | #234 | 981 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | #227 | 997 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | #221 | 1,008 |
| 1966 | #5,273 | 7 | #225 | 961 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 | #231 | 997 |
| 1964 | — | #234 | 1,026 | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | #243 | 989 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | #252 | 933 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #259 | 900 |
| 1960 | — | #276 | 846 | |
| 1959 | — | #279 | 806 | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | #289 | 700 |
| 1957 | — | #274 | 766 | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | #282 | 682 |
| 1955 | — | #282 | 646 | |
| 1954 | — | #299 | 572 | |
| 1953 | — | #277 | 632 | |
| 1952 | — | #304 | 546 | |
| 1951 | — | #320 | 466 | |
| 1950 | — | #314 | 475 | |
| 1949 | — | #336 | 401 | |
| 1948 | — | #351 | 364 | |
| 1947 | — | #356 | 368 | |
| 1946 | — | #375 | 302 | |
| 1945 | — | #377 | 248 | |
| 1944 | — | #398 | 234 | |
| 1943 | — | #414 | 222 | |
| 1942 | — | #434 | 202 | |
| 1941 | — | #470 | 160 | |
| 1940 | — | #457 | 162 | |
| 1939 | — | #414 | 189 | |
| 1938 | — | #410 | 191 | |
| 1937 | — | #414 | 188 | |
| 1936 | — | #409 | 180 | |
| 1935 | — | #461 | 151 | |
| 1934 | — | #430 | 170 | |
| 1933 | — | #426 | 166 | |
| 1932 | — | #484 | 140 | |
| 1931 | — | #449 | 156 | |
| 1930 | — | #480 | 153 | |
| 1929 | — | #447 | 177 | |
| 1928 | — | #443 | 182 | |
| 1927 | — | #459 | 178 | |
| 1926 | — | #456 | 174 | |
| 1925 | — | #500 | 148 | |
| 1924 | — | #532 | 140 | |
| 1923 | — | #531 | 131 | |
| 1922 | — | #535 | 137 | |
| 1921 | — | #616 | 106 | |
| 1920 | — | #615 | 105 | |
| 1919 | — | #730 | 76 | |
| 1918 | — | #647 | 90 | |
| 1917 | — | #607 | 96 | |
| 1916 | — | #647 | 82 | |
| 1915 | — | #632 | 84 | |
| 1914 | — | #629 | 65 | |
| 1913 | — | #503 | 74 | |
| 1912 | — | #599 | 46 | |
| 1911 | — | #793 | 17 | |
| 1910 | — | #822 | 14 | |
| 1909 | — | #893 | 11 | |
| 1908 | — | #744 | 13 | |
| 1907 | — | #930 | 9 | |
| 1906 | — | #709 | 12 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,233 | 5 | |
| 1904 | — | #810 | 9 | |
| 1903 | — | #595 | 14 | |
| 1902 | — | #862 | 8 | |
| 1901 | — | #779 | 8 | |
| 1900 | — | #699 | 13 | |
| 1899 | — | #928 | 6 | |
| 1898 | — | #635 | 12 | |
| 1897 | — | #725 | 9 | |
| 1896 | — | #778 | 9 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #668 | 10 | |
| 1893 | — | #907 | 6 | |
| 1892 | — | #861 | 7 | |
| 1891 | — | #456 | 15 | |
| 1890 | — | #739 | 8 | |
| 1889 | — | #673 | 9 | |
| 1888 | — | #815 | 7 | |
| 1887 | — | #488 | 13 | |
| 1886 | — | #959 | 5 | |
| 1885 | — | #700 | 8 | |
| 1884 | — | #971 | 5 | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #837 | 6 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | #745 | 7 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Roderick was already there! It came in at #745, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Roderick
- 159 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #1,743)
- 134 spots since 2020 (#1,609 → #1,743)
- 673 spots since 2015 (#1,070 → #1,743)
- Biggest jump: 524 spots in 1906 (#1,233 → #709)
- Biggest drop: 423 spots in 1905 (#810 → #1,233)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1967 at #221 (1,008 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 26 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 129 yrs · run 1906–2012
- Highest: 1 in 1,673 boys born in 1971 were named Roderick (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,366 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #221 in 1967, was only 1 in 1,730 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.4% of all boys named Roderick (9,638) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 60 | #488 (1887) | #774 |
| 1890s | 82 | #456 (1891) | #744 |
| 1900s | 102 | #595 (1903) | #825 |
| 1910s | 644 | #503 (1913) | #661 |
| 1920s | 1,478 | #443 (1928) | #513 |
| 1930s | 1,684 | #409 (1936) | #438 |
| 1940s | 2,663 | #336 (1949) | #397 |
| 1950s | 6,291 | #274 (1957) | #292 |
| 1960s | 9,638 | #221 (1967) | #240 |
| 1970s | 8,598 | #223 (1971) | #247 |
| 1980s | 6,625 | #278 (1980) | #314 |
| 1990s | 4,315 | #387 (1990) | #498 |
| 2000s | 2,650 | #613 (2000) | #755 |
| 2010s | 1,796 | #915 (2011) | #1,094 |
| 2020s | 557 | #1,609 (2020) | #1,755 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Roderick in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 169,027 of them was named Roderick, which outranked 43.3% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,109Yvone10
- #5,109Zenda10
- #5,109Zola10
- #5,480Roderick9
- #5,480Abbigail9
- #5,480Adelia9
- #5,480Adrinne9
- #5,959Abelina8
- #5,959Adinah8
- #5,959Adonna8
Tied with 478 names at #5,480; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 1,725 of them was named Roderick, which outranked 96.0% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.