Roddy
Roddy was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,111 among boys’ names; 2,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Roddy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 47 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roddy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roddy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roddy is “a diminutive of the male given name Roderick or Rodger.”
Diminutives + -y.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roddy?
#8,111 among boys’ names, 2025
Roddy rose from #10,395 in 2015 to #8,111 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 5.9 per million.
86 babies in 1960, the peak
Roddy peaked in 1960, when 86 boys were given it, #823 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,111 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,024 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,515 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,377 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,577 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,509 | 4.3 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,395 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,999 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,477 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,014 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #11,960 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 10 | #8,010 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,726 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,101 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,057 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,749 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,955 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,406 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,592 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,428 | 5.7 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,250 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,403 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,202 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,452 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,661 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,238 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,444 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,278 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,032 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,428 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,975 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,664 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,178 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,980 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,560 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,925 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,651 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,074 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,758 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,429 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,448 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,644 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,053 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,981 | 15.9 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,117 | 14.1 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,687 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,580 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,637 | 17.9 |
| 1971 | 27 | #1,737 | 15.3 |
| 1970 | 52 | #1,153 | 28.0 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,486 | 16.8 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,212 | 23.0 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,098 | 26.4 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,058 | 27.5 |
| 1965 | 67 | #911 | 36.0 |
| 1964 | 64 | #956 | 32.1 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,171 | 21.7 |
| 1962 | 55 | #1,034 | 26.6 |
| 1961 | 85 | #837 | 40.0 |
| 1960 | 86 | #823 | 40.3 |
| 1959 | 85 | #828 | 39.8 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,232 | 18.8 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,210 | 19.5 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,249 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,098 | 22.8 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,196 | 19.6 |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,054 | 24.3 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,131 | 22.1 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,135 | 21.8 |
| 1950 | 60 | #890 | 33.5 |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,004 | 27.6 |
| 1948 | 68 | #828 | 38.8 |
| 1947 | 64 | #872 | 35.0 |
| 1946 | 78 | #751 | 48.0 |
| 1945 | 52 | #880 | 38.6 |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,068 | 28.6 |
| 1943 | 46 | #993 | 32.2 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,072 | 29.7 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,328 | 21.2 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,464 | 19.0 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,161 | 28.9 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,884 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,479 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,240 | 28.0 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,699 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,488 | 21.3 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,818 | 16.1 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,701 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,910 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,573 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 17 | #1,913 | 15.8 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,028 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,871 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,092 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,674 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,450 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,127 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,478 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,446 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,190 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,682 | 5.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,394 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,661 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roddy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roddy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roddy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roddy, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 66% of the 2,541 Americans ever recorded as Roddy. The median Roddy alive today is 61 years old; half are between 47 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 1,742 people named Roddy (42 women and girls, 1,700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,840 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 114 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 711 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 207 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 112 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 70 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Roddy born?
The states with the most babies named Roddy are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 236 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 78 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 69 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| South Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Roddy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roddy is most over-represented in Texas: since 1914 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Roddy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,236 babies since 1880, Roddy is the most given (79% 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 Roddy
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 Roddy and names like it
- Compare Roddy and RodyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRoddy peaked in 1960.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roddy since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Roddy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roddy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.