Rodrigo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rodrigo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as from Germanic *hrod- 'fame' + *rīk- 'power, ruler'.
- CLChile≈1 in 212(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 255
- BOBolivia≈1 in 333
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #403 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
561,663 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Germanic *hrod- 'fame' + *rīk- 'power, ruler'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rodrigo is read(measured from records)
Rodrigo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish53%
from Germanic *hrod- 'fame' + *rīk- 'power, ruler'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
a male given name, equivalent to English Roderick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese36%
a male given name from Gothic, equivalent to English Roderick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rodrigo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #32 | 561,663 | 1 in 377 | 602K | Rodrigo | 288 |
| PH Philippines | #135 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 688 | — | Rodrigo | 107 |
| AR Argentina | #124 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 399 | 2.4K | Rodrigo | 180 |
| CL Chile | #28 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | 187 | Rodrigo | 206 |
| ES Spain | #158 | 44,429 | 1 in 1.1K | 44K | Rodrigo | 218 |
| BO Bolivia | #66 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 333 | — | Rodrigo | 97 |
| PT Portugal | #60 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 348 | 855 | Rodrigo | 162 |
| PY Paraguay | #29 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 255 | — | Rodrigo | 86 |
561,663 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rodrigo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Visigothic: ‘fame power’. It was the name of the last king of the Visigoths, defeated by the Moors in 711. Rogerio $ Germanic. See }Roger in main dictionary. Also: Rogelio.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Roderico (senhor da gloria); Roderico, "master of glory"; principal place: Covilhã, Guarda, Marialva, Penamacor, Trancoso, Viseu, Porto, Guimarães, Aveiro, Portugal, Galicia, España
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, sobrenome de matriz hispânica, ligado ao nome do fundador
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivarb. 1048ES11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader
- Alexander VI.b. 1431ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
- Rodrigo Duterteb. 1945PHPresident of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022 (born 1945)
- Rodrigo García Márquezb. 1959COColombian television and film director
- Rodrigo Prietob. 1965MXMexican cinematographer
- Rodrigo Paz Pereirab. 1967ESPresident of Bolivia
- Rodrigo Cortésb. 1973ESSpanish filmmaker
- Rodrigo Santorob. 1975BRBrazilian actor
- Rodrigo De Paulb. 1994ARArgentine association football player (born 1994)
- Rodri Hernándezb. 1996ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 103 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 602K | #47 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 599K | #20 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 562K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 559K | #30 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 44K | #189 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41K | #90 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #30 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2023 | 855 | #13 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 500 | #284 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 187 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 138 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rodrigo mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic *hrod- 'fame' + *rīk- 'power, ruler' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Rodrigo?
- In the etymology graph, Roderick, Rod and Roderic are forms of the same name in other languages; Rui and Ruy are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Rodrigo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 562 thousand people named Rodrigo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rodrigo.
- Is Rodrigo a male or female name?
- Rodrigo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Rodrigo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 561,663 people named Rodrigo in 2022, about 1 in 377 residents.
- How common is Rodrigo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Rodrigo is the 32nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rodrigoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rodrigo” — the 32nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.