Rod
The boy's name Rod has been in the national records since 1910, with 8,744 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 6,500 Rods are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Rod
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,744
- Estimated living today
- 6,500
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 350th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1910
How old the living Rods are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,744 babies given the name since 1910, about 6,500 are alive — 74 in every hundred. Roughly 80 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rods
- Rod Stewart (born 1945)English singer and songwriter
- Rod Steiger (1925–2002)American actor
- Rod Laver (born 1938)Australian tennis player
- Rod Taylor (1930–2015)Australian actor
- Rod Serling (1924–1975)American screenwriter
- Rod Blagojevich (born 1956)40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009
- Rod Fanni (born 1981)French footballer
- Rod Roddy (1937–2003)American radio and television announcer
People named Rod with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rod is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rod is most concentrated in Oregon (4.4×), Washington (4.3×), Idaho (2.6×), Montana (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Rod peaked:
Rod elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Rod | 50 | 4,530th |
| England and Wales boys | Rod | 3 | 2,863rd |
| Ireland boys | Rod | 3 | 337th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Rod against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.