Given name
Roderica
“a famous ruler”
In German use, Roderica carries the interpretation “a famous ruler.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Roderica carries the interpretation “a famous ruler.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
Roderica is used as a feminine counterpart of Roderick.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Roderica is a feminine 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
Roderica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 135
- 0 boys · 135 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 15 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 girls is 7 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 181 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.
Roderica’s family of names
In English usage, Roderica has a diminutive in Roddie. Roderica is a feminine form of Roderick. Roderica has a related form in Rodericka.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Roddiediminutive · English
- Roderickavariant
- Roderricalikely variant
- Roddericalikely variant
- Roderykavariant
- Roderycavariant
- Roderigavariant
- Roderiquevariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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