Meaning not yet researched.
Roddy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #751 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #751 in 1946; #8,115 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Roddy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,115 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #751.
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Roddy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #751 in 1946 · most boys in one year: 86 (1960).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Roddy, making it the 8,115th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #751, reached in 1946. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 1960. For comparison, it was #10,401 in 2015 and #891 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roddy in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,541 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 566 babies named Roddy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 46 US boys were named Roddy; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rudy (51,402 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roddie, Rodie and Roddey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Roddie (308), Rodie (25), Roddey (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Roddy in the open dataset we use.
Roddy is listed as a nickname for Roderick.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 10 | #8,115 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,030 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,520 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,383 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,582 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,514 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #10,401 |
| 2014 | — | — | 10 | #8,005 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,482 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #8,020 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,967 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #8,016 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,731 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #7,106 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,063 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,756 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,963 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,412 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,435 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #11,258 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,410 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,208 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,459 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,667 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,244 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,450 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,285 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,039 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,434 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,981 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,669 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,185 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,983 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,563 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,926 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,652 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,075 |
| 1981 | — | — | 17 | #2,760 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,430 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,449 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,645 |
| 1977 | — | — | 24 | #2,053 |
| 1976 | — | — | 25 | #1,982 |
| 1975 | — | — | 22 | #2,118 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,687 |
| 1973 | — | — | 31 | #1,580 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,637 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,738 |
| 1970 | — | — | 52 | #1,153 |
| 1969 | — | — | 30 | #1,486 |
| 1968 | — | — | 40 | #1,212 |
| 1967 | — | — | 46 | #1,098 |
| 1966 | — | — | 49 | #1,058 |
| 1965 | — | — | 67 | #911 |
| 1964 | — | — | 64 | #956 |
| 1963 | — | — | 44 | #1,172 |
| 1962 | — | — | 55 | #1,035 |
| 1961 | — | — | 85 | #838 |
| 1960 | — | — | 86 | #824 |
| 1959 | — | — | 85 | #829 |
| 1958 | — | — | 40 | #1,233 |
| 1957 | — | — | 42 | #1,211 |
| 1956 | — | — | 38 | #1,250 |
| 1955 | — | — | 47 | #1,099 |
| 1954 | — | — | 40 | #1,197 |
| 1953 | — | — | 48 | #1,055 |
| 1952 | — | — | 43 | #1,132 |
| 1951 | — | — | 41 | #1,136 |
| 1950 | — | — | 60 | #891 |
| 1949 | — | — | 49 | #1,005 |
| 1948 | — | — | 68 | #829 |
| 1947 | — | — | 64 | #873 |
| 1946 | — | — | 78 | #751 |
| 1945 | — | — | 52 | #880 |
| 1944 | — | — | 39 | #1,068 |
| 1943 | — | — | 46 | #993 |
| 1942 | — | — | 41 | #1,072 |
| 1941 | — | — | 26 | #1,328 |
| 1940 | — | — | 22 | #1,464 |
| 1939 | — | — | 32 | #1,161 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,884 |
| 1937 | — | — | 22 | #1,479 |
| 1936 | — | — | 29 | #1,240 |
| 1935 | — | — | 18 | #1,699 |
| 1934 | — | — | 22 | #1,488 |
| 1933 | — | — | 16 | #1,818 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,701 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,910 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,575 |
| 1929 | — | — | 17 | #1,913 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #3,030 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,872 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,094 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,676 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,451 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,129 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,480 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,447 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,192 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,684 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,396 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,662 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).