Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Rodric 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 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rodric 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
Rodric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 505
- 505 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 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 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 438 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.
Rodric’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Rodric has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Rodrigo. Rodric has a related form in Roderick.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rodric
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Rodric, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Rodrick
Rodrick is a masculine given name.
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Rhoderick
>99% boys
Kenric
“a royal ruler” · “the champion”
>99% boys
Rodrigues
“son of Rodrigo”
>99% boys
Ronell
“the king's advisor”
>99% boys
Cerdic
“a king”
>99% boys
Rodriguez
“son of Rodrigo”
>99% boys
Reggy
“the king's advisor”
>99% boys