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Rodert vs Rodrigo

American parents have registered 27,759 Rodrigos since 1880, against 161 Roderts. Rodrigo is still ahead, with 614 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rodert against Rodrigo, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rodert Rodrigo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Rodrigo for 106 years and Rodert for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Rodert Rodrigo
Total US births 16127,759
Most in one year 111,177
Babies in 2025 under 5614
Estimated living today 4026,000
Median age today 6819
Peak year 19252007
Best rank 2,588th boys291st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked491st
First recorded 19191918
Girls / boys 0 / 1615 / 27,754

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Roderts alive today are over 68; half the Rodrigos are over 19. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rodert and Rodrigo.