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Roddy

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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
Babies named Roddy, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Roddy
1910s15
1920s91
1930s200
1940s485
1950s484
1960s566
1970s276
1980s156
1990s108
2000s63
2010s66
2020s21

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.

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.