Roderick
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Roderick
The aristocratic--if not haughty--Roderick was nevertheless consistently in the Top 1000, reaching as high as Number 221 in 1967, when it was not uncommon to run into a Rod or a Roddy. It's at a low point right now, but we can envision it being revived as a neglected, dignified grandpa name, perhaps when Rod is no longer a potentially embarrassing nickname..
Roderick has lots of literary history, including the novels Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett and Roderick Hudson by Henry James, and Roderick Usher is the main character in the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." Roderick, of course, is the full name of Rod Stewart, and TV personality Rosie Pope called her son James Roderick.
Roderick is also given to girls.
Pronounced RAH-dur-ik.
As of October 2026, Roderick ranked #11408 in US births in 1988 SSA, peaked at #4217 in 1962.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | #1,087 | 178 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | #1,070 | 185 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | #1,017 | 199 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | #1,173 | 160 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | #1,358 | 131 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | #1,344 | 134 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | #1,618 | 100 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | #1,706 | 96 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | #1,674 | 103 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | #1,923 | 82 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | #1,909 | 83 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | #1,752 | 93 |
World rankings
Roderick for boys
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Roderick on lists
Famous Rodericks
- Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowallBoy
English/American Actor
- Roderick Anthony Burton II aka DollaBoy
American rapper
- Roderick "Roddy" MaudeBoy
Roxby, English actor
- Roderick George Toombs aka Rowdy Roddy PiperBoy
Canadian professional wrestler and actor.
- Roderick David "Rod" StewartBoy
English singer,songwriter
- Roderick Random AllenBoy
US WWiI major general
- Roderick StrongBoy
ring name of Christopher Lindsay, American pro wrestler
- Roderick MurchisonBoy
Scottish geologist
- Roderick PaulateBoy
Filipino actor
- Roderick William CameronBoy
Canadian,American shipping magnate
- Roderick MacKinnonBoy
Nobel Prize,winning American neurobiologist
- Sean Roderick StewartBoy
son of singer Rod Stewart
- James Roderick "J.R." PopeBoy
son of reality TV personalities Rosie and Daron Pope
Roderick in pop culture
- Roderick (Rod) WolfeBoy
main male character in Scarlett Avery’s book “Torrid Love”.
- Roderick UsherBoy
main character in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
- Sir Roderick GlossopBoy
character in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse
- Roderick SpodeBoy
character in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse
- Roderick JaynesBoy
pseudonym for American filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen
- Roderick AlleynBoy
detective character in novels by Ngaio Marsh
- Roderick MeeksBoy
character on Glee
- Roderick KingsleyBoy
character in Marvel Comics
- Roderick AndersonBoy
steward on the titular ship of the mystery game "Return of the Obra Dinn"