Rod
Rod is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 344th, in 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1960495 births
- Best rank
- #344in 1965
- Since 1910
- 8,744people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,744 boys have been named Rod in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 495 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 495 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 43%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rod | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 32 | |
| 1920s | 72 | |
| 1930s | 232 | |
| 1940s | 990 | |
| 1950s | 2,026 | |
| 1960s | 3,745 | |
| 1970s | 923 | |
| 1980s | 316 | |
| 1990s | 229 | |
| 2000s | 113 | |
| 2010s | 52 | |
| 2020s | 14 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Rod was the 350th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Rod
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timmiepeak 1959
- Ronpeak 1960
- Chuckpeak 1961
- Russpeak 1959
- Greggpeak 1962
- Gregpeak 1961
- Darrypeak 1960
- Timpeak 1960
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.