Roddy

Boys' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~1,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #7,679 among boys
Births in 2025: 10 2,541 since 1880
Typical age: 61 years, median

Roddy popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1914–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1960: 86 births recorded as Roddy. 1914 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Roddy has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 12 years.

The 2025 position is #7,679, on 10 births. The ten-year change is +43%.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Roddy?

About 1,800 people named Roddy are alive in the United States today. That is out of 2,541 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Roddy?

Half of living Roddys are older than 61, half younger. The 1960s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Roddy a late 20th-century name.

Your Roddy

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Roddy

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Roddy McDowall	British actor	1928–1998	42
Roddy Doyle	Irish author	1958	34
Roddy White	American football player	1981	9
Roddy McEachrane	Scottish footballer	1877–1952	8
Roddy Maude-Roxby	British actor	1930	8

Photo credits (3)

Roddy McDowall — Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roddy Doyle — Christoph Rieger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roddy White — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Roddy

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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