Rodney

Rodney is the 7,967th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,986 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 75,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,986
Rank: 7,967th
How common: 1 in 75,000
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English placename Hrōdanīeġ, Hrōdanīġ, from Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz (“fame”) and *awjō (“island”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 56.3%
White, not Hispanic 32.7%
Hispanic or Latino 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Rodney

Walter Rodney (1942–1979)Guyanese Marxist, Pan-Afrianist, and historian
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1719–1792)Royal Navy admiral;
Brendon Rodney (born 1992)Canadian athletics competitor and sprinter
Caesar Rodney (1728–1784)American politician
Caesar Augustus Rodney (1772–1824)American politician
Fernando Rodney (born 1977)Dominican Republic baseball player

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

Surnames like Rodney

Also a first name

Rodney has been given to 248,325 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1965. 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.