Rody
Rody was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,525 among boys’ names; 387 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rody by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rody mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Rody is “a diminutive of the male given names Rodelio, Rodolfo, and Rodrigo”
From English Rody, from diminutive of Rodelio, Rodolfo, Rodrigo + -y.
/ˈɾodi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rody?
#9,525 among boys’ names, 2025
Rody entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #9,525 in 2025.
14 babies in 1960, the peak
Rody peaked in 1960, when 14 boys were given it, #2,296 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,525 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,058 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,758 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,178 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,845 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,578 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,917 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,508 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,442 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,801 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,543 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,521 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,168 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,651 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,821 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,173 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,837 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,593 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,180 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,284 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,071 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,404 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,789 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,692 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,561 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,036 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,921 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,776 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,590 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,051 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,103 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,063 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,089 | 3.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,662 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,336 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,682 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,894 | 4.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,295 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,617 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,866 | 3.4 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,961 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,954 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,673 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,296 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,912 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,515 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,905 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,363 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,125 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,728 | 3.0 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,056 | 4.4 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,501 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,880 | 4.5 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,643 | 6.9 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,134 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rody a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rody has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rody: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rody, and how old are they?
An estimated 329 Americans named Rody and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 18 and 54. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 715 people named Rody (79 women and girls, 636 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times 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 2,928 babies since 1880, Rody is the second most given (13% 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 Rody
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 Rody and names like it
- Compare Rody and RoddyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRody peaked in 1960.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Rody.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rody alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.