Rodger vs Rodolfo
American parents have registered 33,856 Rodolfos since 1880, against 21,556 Rodgers. Rodolfo is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Rodger Rodolfo
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 128 years in which either name was published, Rodolfo for 77 years and Rodger for 51 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1891–1916 Rodger ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1921–1931 Rodolfo ahead
- 1932–1966 Rodger ahead
- 1967–2025 Rodolfo ahead
12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Rodger | Rodolfo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 21,556 | 33,856 |
| Most in one year | 680 | 610 |
| Babies in 2025 | 18 | 121 |
| Estimated living today | 13,000 | 27,000 |
| Median age today | 65 | 37 |
| Peak year | 1949 | 1981 |
| Best rank | 247th boys | 311th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,208th | 1,466th |
| First recorded | 1891 | 1902 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 21,556 | 83 / 33,773 |
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 Rodgers alive today are over 65; half the Rodolfos are over 37. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Rodger North Dakota (2.6×), West Virginia (1.8×), Pennsylvania (1.8×)
- Rodolfo Texas (6.3×), Arizona (3.4×), California (3.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rodger and Rodolfo.