Given name & surname
Rodriguez
“son of Rodrigo”
Rodriguez is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Central Bikol, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rodriguez goes back to Spanish Rodríguez, meaning “son of Rodrigo.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rodriguez 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 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rodriguez 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
Rodriguez through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 957
- 952 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 47 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 8 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 47 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,694 as a first name in 2020; 1,085,838 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.
Rodriguez’s family of names
Rodriguez has a related form in Roderick. In English usage, Rodriguez as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Rodrigues. In English usage, Rodriguez as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Rodríguez.
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Around the world
Rodriguez has relatives in 9 languages.
9 related names in 9 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 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- RodriguesPortuguese
- Rodríguezsource · Spanish
- ראָדריגעזYiddish
- РодригесRussian
- 로드리게스Korean
- ロドリゲスJapanese
- रोद्रिगेसHindi
- 羅德里格斯Mandarin
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