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Rodney

Pronounced /ˈɹɑdni/

Rank in 2024
#1,084
Born in 2024
200
Peak year
1965 · #33
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 200 boys were named Rodney, about 1 in every 8,577.
  • It peaked in 1965 with 11,086 babies, ranked #33.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 246,952 boys have been named Rodney since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Rodney per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 1.0
    Silent
  3. 2.6
    Boomers
  4. 3.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.8
    Millennials
  6. 0.3
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,339 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Silent: 21,509 babies, 1.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 97,198 babies, 2.59 per 1,000. Gen X: 83,684 babies, 3.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 25,001 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10,546 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,380 babies, 0.16 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English placename Hrōdanīeġ, Hrōdanīġ (literally “Hroda's island”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz (“fame”) and *awjō (“island”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɹɑdni/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Rodney, CC BY-SA 4.0.