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Roderick

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Roderick is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. Its best rank was 221st, in 1967.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
830.00% of boys
Peak year
19711,057 births
Best rank
#221in 1967
Since 1880
47,088people given the name
Babies named Roderick, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

47,088 boys have been named Roderick in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 1,057 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1960s alone account for 20%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Roderick
1880s60
1890s82
1900s102
1910s644
1920s1,478
1930s1,684
1940s2,663
1950s6,293
1960s9,637
1970s8,598
1980s6,625
1990s4,313
2000s2,650
2010s1,795
2020s464

In 1971, its biggest year

Roderick was the 223rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1971 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1971.

Names that rose and fell with Roderick

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.