Given name & surname
Rodel
“a famous ruler”
In French use, Rodel carries the interpretation “a famous ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In French use, Rodel carries the interpretation “a famous ruler.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
Rodel is used as a form of Roderick.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rodel is a form 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
Rodel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 108
- 108 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 10 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 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,171 as a first name in 2020; 162 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.
Rodel’s family of names
Rodel is a form of Roderick. Rodel has a related form in Rodell. Rodel has a related form in Rodele.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
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 Rodel
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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