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Roddy

Recorded 1914–2025 · United States

Roddy was most popular in 1960, when 86 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,930 that year. In 2025 it ranked #16,070, with 10 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,541 people named Roddy.

Most popular in1960
Rank that year#1,930
Births that year86
Total since 18802,541
Given to100% boys
Alive today~1,000
Median age62

Roddy over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Roddy’s peak in 1960. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Roddy?

Roddy first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 103 of the 112 years since.

How many people are named Roddy?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,541 American births named Roddy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,727 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Roddy in 2025?

10 American babies were named Roddy in 2025, ranking #16,070 that year.

Is Roddy getting more or less popular?

Roddy is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 8 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Roddy a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Roddy is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,541 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Roddy?

Roughly 1,727 Americans named Roddy are alive today — 68% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 62 years old, and half are between 48 and 71.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Roddy is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org