Roddie
Roddie was last recorded in 1979, when 6 babies were given it; 308 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roddie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roddie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roddie is “a diminutive of the male given name Roderick.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Roderica.”
Diminutives, + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roddie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,905, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1961, the peak
Roddie peaked in 1961, when 16 boys were given it, #2,128 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #5,905 | 3.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,296 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,226 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,506 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,892 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,862 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,488 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,809 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,587 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,644 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 16 | #2,128 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,294 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,506 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,480 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,793 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,469 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,451 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,704 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,505 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,834 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,649 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,616 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,252 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,600 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,055 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,661 | 5.5 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,531 | 7.0 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,087 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,059 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,824 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,125 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,367 | 10.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,700 | 5.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,450 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,684 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,715 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,082 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roddie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 308 Americans recorded as Roddie, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Roddie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roddie, and how old are they?
An estimated 174 Americans named Roddie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 62 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 246 people named Roddie (31 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,849 babies since 1880, Roddie is the second most given (11% of them).
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 Roddie
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 Roddie and names like it
- Compare Roddie and RoddyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRoddie peaked in 1961.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Roddie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roddie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.