Given name & surname
Roddie
“a famous ruler”
Roddie is a variant of Rod. In English use, Rod carries the interpretation “a famous ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Roddie is a variant of Rod. In English use, Rod carries the interpretation “a famous ruler.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Roddie is a diminutive of Roderick. An origin associated with Roderick is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Roddie is a diminutive of Roderick. In English usage, Roddie is a diminutive of Roderica.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Roddie is a diminutive 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
Roddie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 308
- 303 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1961
- 16 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 6 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1961. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 246 as a first name in 2020; 179 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.
Roddie’s family of names
In English usage, Roddie is a diminutive of Roderick. Roddie has a related form in Rod. In English usage, Roddie is a diminutive of Roderica.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Roddie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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