Rodman
Rodman was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,331 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rodman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rodman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,833, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1928, the peak
Rodman peaked in 1928, when 34 boys were given it, #1,248 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,833 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,681 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,645 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,662 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,750 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,395 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,120 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,068 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,251 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,391 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 10 | #6,001 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,796 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,841 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,477 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,242 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,839 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,714 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,779 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,775 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,589 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,612 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,421 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,912 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,867 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,088 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,130 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,566 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,657 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,469 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,044 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,766 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,959 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,956 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,508 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,854 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,201 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 17 | #2,017 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,578 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,435 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,587 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,605 | 12.5 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,779 | 10.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,479 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,931 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 25 | #1,655 | 11.7 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,179 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,344 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 26 | #1,574 | 12.1 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,005 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,117 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,660 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,882 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,848 | 9.3 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,590 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,302 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,102 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,696 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,148 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,011 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,839 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,964 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,518 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,460 | 17.4 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,979 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,880 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,781 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,297 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,398 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,632 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,223 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,532 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,982 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,769 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,632 | 19.2 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,274 | 29.2 |
| 1929 | 30 | #1,309 | 27.9 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,248 | 30.7 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,400 | 25.7 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,774 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,789 | 17.9 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,569 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,353 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,631 | 21.1 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,384 | 27.2 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,296 | 30.1 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,524 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,058 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,967 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,696 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,865 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,845 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,458 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,023 | 18.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rodman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rodman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rodman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rodman, and how old are they?
An estimated 589 Americans named Rodman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 44 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Rodman (0 women and girls, 713 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 672 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rodman
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 Rodman and names like it
- Compare Rodman and GlennonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRodman peaked in 1928.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rodman since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Rodman.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rodman alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.