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Roderick
Pronounced /ˈɹɒdəɹɪk/
Rank in 2024
#1,903
Born in 2024
83
Peak year
1971 · #223
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 83 boys were named Roderick, about 1 in every 20,666.
- It peaked in 1971 with 1,057 babies, ranked #223.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 47,088 boys have been named Roderick since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Roderick per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,852 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Silent: 3,271 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Boomers: 12,421 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Gen X: 14,300 babies, 0.53 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,203 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,257 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,629 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɹɒdəɹɪk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Roderick, CC BY-SA 4.0.