Rodderick
Rodderick was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 237 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rodderick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rodderick?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,689, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1992, the peak
Rodderick peaked in 1992, when 13 boys were given it, #4,519 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #13,689 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,785 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,393 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,958 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,427 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,118 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,642 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,378 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,998 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,947 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #6,691 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,519 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,418 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,919 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,953 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,555 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,357 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,827 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,178 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,804 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,852 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,252 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,622 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,654 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,468 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,879 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,765 | 5.7 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,889 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,764 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,312 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,432 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,330 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,540 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rodderick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rodderick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rodderick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rodderick, and how old are they?
An estimated 221 Americans named Rodderick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 32 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 245 people named Rodderick (3 women and girls, 242 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Rodderick?
Rodderick is a less common spelling of Roderick: SSA has recorded 237 Rodderick and 47,446 Roderick since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 59,872 babies since 1880, Rodderick is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 123 babies recorded by SSA was a Rodderick (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rodderick
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rodderick and names like it
- Compare Rodderick and RoderickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRodderick peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Rodderick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rodderick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.