Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Roderic 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 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Roderic 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
Roderic through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,321
- 2,321 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1965
- 68 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,726 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −48%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,726 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 68 in 1965. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,561 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Roderic’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Roderic has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Rodrigo. Roderic has a related form in Roderick. In French usage, Roderic has a conventional equivalent in the German form Roderich.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Roderic
- RodericVisigothic king in Hispania688–711
- Rod EvansEnglish singerborn 1947
- Roderic O'ConorIrish artist (1860-1940)
- Roderic DallasAustralian fighter ace of World War I (1891–1918)
- Roderic O'GormanIrish politicianborn 1982
- Roddy LlewellynBritish baronet, landscape gardener, journalistborn 1947
- Rodéric FilippiFrench footballerborn 1989
- Roderic Alfred GregoryBritish biologist (1913–1990)
- Roderic H. DavisonAmerican historian of the Middle East1917–1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Roderic, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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Reggy
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>99% boys
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>99% boys
Rodriguez
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