Roderic
Roderic was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,722 among boys’ names; 2,321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,600 Americans named Roderic and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 43 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roderic by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Roderic?
#11,722 among boys’ names, 2025
Roderic entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,722 in 2025.
68 babies in 1965, the peak
Roderic peaked in 1965, when 68 boys were given it, #896 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,722 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,698 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,852 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,853 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,913 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,507 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,478 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,527 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,541 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,833 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #8,846 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,254 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,535 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,435 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,811 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,119 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,604 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,830 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,492 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,102 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,014 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,875 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,456 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,715 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,935 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,430 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,595 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,275 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,413 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,928 | 9.9 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,621 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,981 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,575 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,238 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,579 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,075 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,867 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,430 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,859 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,746 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,602 | 21.3 |
| 1976 | 42 | #1,388 | 26.8 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,774 | 17.9 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,286 | 28.0 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,198 | 30.8 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,191 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,271 | 24.9 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,013 | 35.0 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,048 | 30.8 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,054 | 28.8 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,112 | 25.8 |
| 1966 | 56 | #982 | 31.4 |
| 1965 | 68 | #896 | 36.6 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,080 | 25.1 |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,002 | 28.6 |
| 1962 | 59 | #1,002 | 28.5 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,127 | 23.1 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,290 | 17.8 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,193 | 20.1 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,317 | 16.5 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,295 | 17.2 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,312 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,447 | 14.1 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,238 | 18.1 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,402 | 15.2 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,315 | 17.0 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,188 | 20.2 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,646 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,425 | 15.2 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,481 | 14.2 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,416 | 15.3 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,373 | 16.6 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,403 | 17.1 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,870 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,570 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,124 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 29 | #1,250 | 23.6 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,615 | 16.4 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,700 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,675 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,072 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,276 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,700 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,772 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,695 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,768 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,682 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,055 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,177 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,601 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,020 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,278 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,103 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,792 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,408 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,479 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,243 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,430 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,366 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,316 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,485 | 7.6 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,128 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,022 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,198 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Roderic a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roderic has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roderic: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roderic, and how old are they?
1,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 2,321 Americans ever recorded as Roderic. The median Roderic alive today is 56 years old; half are between 43 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,561 people named Roderic (1 woman or girl, 1,560 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 64 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 477 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 621 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 247 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 144 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 46 |
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 Roderic born?
The states with the most babies named Roderic are California, Texas and Michigan, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Roderic with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Roderic?
Roderic is a less common spelling of Roderick: SSA has recorded 2,321 Roderic and 47,446 Roderick since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 60,377 babies since 1880, Roderic is the third most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 123 babies (4.9%), again the third most given.
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 Roderic
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 Roderic and names like it
- Compare Roderic and RoderickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRoderic peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roderic since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Roderic.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Roderic alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.