Roddy
Roddy is a boy's name that peaked in 1960, when it was the 821st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 1,700 Roddys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Roddy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,541
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 821st
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Roddys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,541 babies given the name since 1914, about 1,700 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 660 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 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 Roddys
- Roddy McDowall (1928–1998)British actor
- Roddy Piper (1954–2015)Canadian professional wrestler
- Roddy Doyle (born 1958)Irish author
- Roddy Ricch (born 1998)American rapper
- Roddy Bottum (born 1963)American musician
People named Roddy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roddy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Roddy is most concentrated in Louisiana (7.7×), Texas (6.2×), South Carolina (5.4×), North Carolina (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Roddy peaked:
Roddy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland boys | Roddy | 257 | 319th |
| France boys | Roddy | 195 | 1,028th |
| England and Wales boys | Roddy | 61 | 1,771st |
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
Roddy 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.