Rodger
The boy's name Rodger has been in the national records since 1891, with 21,556 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 13,000 Rodgers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Rodger
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,556
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1949
- Best rank
- 247th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1891
How old the living Rodgers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,556 babies given the name since 1891, about 13,000 are alive — 60 in every hundred. Roughly 370 of them are children and 6,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rodgers
- Rodger Bumpass (born 1951)American actor
- Rodger Ward (1921–2004)American racecar driver
- Rodger Young (1918–1943)Medal of Honor recipient
- Rodger Corser (born 1973)Australian actor and television presenter
People named Rodger with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rodger is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rodger is most concentrated in North Dakota (2.6×), West Virginia (1.8×), Pennsylvania (1.8×), Alabama (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1949
The most popular boys’ names the year Rodger peaked:
Rodger elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Rodger | 69 | 217th |
| Scotland boys | Rodger | 37 | 181st |
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
Rodger 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.