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Rodrigo
Say it: roh-DREE-goh
Meaning
Spanish and Portuguese form of Germanic Hroderic: hrod 'fame' and ric 'ruler, powerful'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Continuously used in Spain since the Visigothic period and popular across Latin America.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 24,827 babies given this name since 1918
- At its height in 2007, about 1 in 1,800 boys
- 478 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
SpanishPortugueseMexicanBrazilianArgentineGothicCentral AmericanAndeanCaribbean
The family of the name
Other spellings: Ruy
| English | Roderick |
|---|---|
| German | Roderich |
| Italian | Rodrigo |
| Galician | Roi |
Famous bearers
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid
- Roderic, last king of the Visigoths
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Where this comes from
- Medieval Spanish and Portuguese chronicles and charters
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.