Meaning & origin
What it means
Rodrigue is built from elements meaning “glory” and “powerful”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rodrigue 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 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rodrigue 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
Rodrigue through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 39 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 7 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 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 659 as a first name in 2020; 5,149 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.
Rodrigue’s family of names
In French usage, Rodrigue has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Rodrigo. Rodrigue has a related form in Roderick. In French usage, Rodrigue has a conventional equivalent in the English form Roderick.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Rodrigue has relatives in 6 languages.
10 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- RoryEnglish
- RodrigoSpanish, Portuguese
- Rodneyequivalent
- RuiPortuguese
- Rodriguesequivalent
- RoderichGerman
- RuySpanish
- RodEnglish
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People named Rodrigue
- Rodrigue BeauboisFrench basketball player (born 1988)
- Rodrigue MoundoungaGabonese footballerborn 1982
- Rodrigue DikabaFootballer (born 1985)
- Rodrigue NordinFrench athleteborn 1971
- Rodrigue TremblayCanadian politicianborn 1939
- Rodrigue AkpakounBeninese footballerborn 1974
- Rodrigue KwizeraBurundian long-distance runnerborn 1999
- Louis-Rodrigue MassonCanadian politician (1833-1903)
- Rodrigue JeanCanadian film directorborn 1957
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