Roderic
Masculine · “Germanic hrod and ric”
Roderic was the last king of Visigothic Spain. He lost a battle in 711 to a Berber commander called Tariq, and eight centuries of Muslim rule in the peninsula began; his body was never found, which was enough to start a legend.
How old is the name Roderic?
Roderic first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Roderic alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 1,700 people named Roderic are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Roderic most popular?
Roderic peaked in 1965, reaching #890 nationally. Today it ranks #10695, 9,805 places below that high. See the whole 1965 chart.
Where it comes from
From Hrodric to Roderic
The story of Roderic
The Visigothic kingdom had ruled Spain for two centuries when Roderic took the throne in 710 amid a disputed succession. The following year an army crossed from North Africa, met him at a river in the south, and destroyed his forces; within a few years almost the whole peninsula was under Muslim rule. Roderic disappeared in the battle or shortly after, and the absence of a body produced centuries of legend: that he escaped and did penance, that he would return, that his fall was punishment for a personal crime. Spanish ballads, and later Southey and Walter Scott, worked the story hard. The name survived as Rodrigo, borne by the eleventh-century warlord known as El Cid, and its Latin form gives the English Roderick.
Meaning
Germanic hrod and ric, famous power
From Germanic hrod, fame, and ric, power or rule, giving Gothic Roderic and Spanish Rodrigo. The same elements appear in Roger and Frederick. The American peak of this spelling is 1965.
How the name formed
- Hrodric
- Roderic
- Rodrigo
Related forms: Rodrigo · Roderick · Roderich
Pronouncing Roderic
ROD-ur-ik
Three syllables, stress on the first. Roderic and Roderick are homophones; the k spelling is the more usual in English.
Nicknames for Roderic
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 196259 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #890reached in 1965
- Change vs 2019
- 0.0%6 in 2025, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Roderic in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rodrigo in Spanish — same name
- Roderick in English — spelling variant
- Roderich in German — same name
Roderics among us
people named Roderic are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 284,679 born in 2025 was named Roderic
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Roderic
- #10695
- Roderic on the 2025 chart
- #829
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Roderic went to 6 boys in 2025, but Roderick is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 99, which makes it the 829th most-given boys’ name of the year — 9,866 places above the chart.
- Roderick93
- Roderic6
About 1 boy in 17,253 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 284,679 for Roderic itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Niles test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Roderic's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Niles climbed just as high around 1942, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Niles's path sketches the road Roderic is walking now.
Roderic sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Roderic beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Roderic in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Rod and Rick are two complete names inside one.
- The Germanic elements are documented and transparent.
- The name exists across Spanish, German and English.
- Roderick with a k is the standard English spelling.
- Three syllables is long before a surname.
- The 1965 peak dates this form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Roderics are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Roderic are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Roderic?
- Roderic is one of 2 recorded spellings. Roderick is the more common one — 93 births in 2025 against 6 for Roderic.
- How popular is the name Roderic in 2025?
- Roderic ranks #10695 among US boy names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Roderic?
- About 1 in every 284,679 US boys born in 2025 was named Roderic — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Roderic with classmates?
- Roderic will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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