Given name & surname
Rhoderick
Rhoderick is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rhoderick is a variant of Roderick. An origin associated with Roderick is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1937. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rhoderick is a variant of Roderick. The history of Roderick gives this family its wider story. Walter Scott’s The Vision of Don Roderick helped revive the name in the nineteenth century, using it for the Spanish king Rodrigo. Roderick has also served as an English rendering of Gaelic Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch, without making those names etymologically identical.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Rhoderick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 57
- 57 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1985. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 224 as a first name in 2020; 349 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rhoderick’s family of names
Rhoderick has a related form in Roderick.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Rhoderick
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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