Roddy
Roddy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 751st, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196086 births
- Best rank
- #751in 1946
- Since 1914
- 2,531people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,531 boys have been named Roddy in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 86 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 86 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1960s alone account for 22%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Roddy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | |
| 1920s | 91 | |
| 1930s | 200 | |
| 1940s | 485 | |
| 1950s | 484 | |
| 1960s | 566 | |
| 1970s | 276 | |
| 1980s | 156 | |
| 1990s | 108 | |
| 2000s | 63 | |
| 2010s | 66 | |
| 2020s | 21 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Roddy was the 824th 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 Roddy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnnypeak 1947
- Dennypeak 1947
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Sammypeak 1947
- Gerrypeak 1958
- Tommypeak 1947
- Ronnypeak 1947
- Donniepeak 1952
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.