Roderick

At the 2020 census, 6,263 Americans bore the surname Roderick — 5,377th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 47,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,263
Rank: 5,377th
How common: 1 in 47,700
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Roderick described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.4%
Black, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Roderick

Brande Roderick (born 1974)American model and actress
Roderick (born 1991)Portuguese association football player

People named Roderick with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Roderick

Also a first name

Roderick has been given to 47,446 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1971. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.