Given name & surname
Rodrigues
“son of Rodrigo”
Rodrigues is a surname from Portuguese (ultimately Spanish). It is used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rodrigues goes back to Portuguese Rodrigues, meaning “son of Rodrigo.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rodrigues is a variant of Roderick. An origin associated with Roderick is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Portuguese Rodrigues (“son of Rodrigo”), from Spanish Rodrigues.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rodrigues 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
Rodrigues through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 109
- 109 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 11 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 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1978. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 177 as a first name in 2020; 28,708 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.
Rodrigues’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Rodrigues as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Rodríguez. Rodrigues has a related form in Roderick. In Galician usage, Rodrigues has a related form in Rodríguez.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Rodrigues has relatives in 3 languages.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rodrigues
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