Rody
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹoʊdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rody is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Shortening of Rodelio.
- NLNetherlands1 in 19K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 465K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Shortening of Rodelio.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rody 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Rody | 25 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Rody | 24 |
| EC Ecuador | 1,183 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | — | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 889 | 1 in 19K | 853 | Rody | 47 |
| US United States | 715 | 1 in 465K | 636 | Rody | 203 |
| UY Uruguay | 127 | 1 in 27K | 127 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Rody is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given names Rodelio, Rodolfo, or Rodrigo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of rod
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ród
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, nominative/accusative plural of rod
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, ruddy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Rody Gormanb. 1960IEIrish poet
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Rody mean, and where does it come from?
- Shortening of Rodelio. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Rody have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Rody in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rody.
- Where is Rody most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rody is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Rody?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊdi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Rody a male or female name?
- Rody 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 Rody?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 1,183 people named Rody in 2024, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rody?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rodyThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rody”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.