Given name

Rodericus

Rodericus is a masculine given name from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Latin.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Rodericus comes from Proto-Germanic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Rodericus through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1982
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Rodericus in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1982–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Rodericus’s family of names

Rodericus may belong to the same name family as RODDERICUS. This is a tentative spelling connection.

Walk Rodericus’s family in the name graph

RodericusRodrigoRoderickRoderic

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Rodericus

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Germanic languages

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Germanic languages

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Germanic languages

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Welsh · Literary

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Germanic · Nature

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“turner, lather”

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English

Geoffrey

“a man of peace”

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>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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