Roddy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Full of rods or twigs
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Roddy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 47K
- CACanada≈1 in 69K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Full of rods or twigs.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roddy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Roddy | 7 |
| US United States | — | 7,127 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Roddy | 355 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1.2K | Roddy | 146 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Roddy | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Roddy | 84 |
| LR Liberia | #255 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Roddy | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Roddy | 66 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 20 | — | 3 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Roddy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Teutonic: renowned ruler
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In English, Diminutive of Rodd/Rod
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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)
- Patrick Roddyb. 1827IErecipient of the Victoria Cross
- Martin Roddyb. 1887IEIrish politician
- Joseph Roddyb. 1897IEIrish politician (1897–1965)
- Rod Roddyb. 1937USAmerican radio and television announcer (1937-2003)
- Lalor Roddyb. 1954GBNorthern Irish actor
- Derek Roddyb. 1972USAmerican drummer
- Owen Roddyb. 1983IEmartial artist
- Kevin Roddyb. 2000USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
- David Roddyb. 2001USAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Frank RoddyAustralian rugby league player
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 43 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,660 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,074 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.2K | #5,840 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Roddy mean, and where does it come from?
- Full of rods or twigs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Roddy?
- In the etymology graph, Rodrigue is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Roddy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Roddy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roddy.
- How common is the name Roddy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,127 people named Roddy in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Roddy compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Roddy is the 255th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roddyThe 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, “Roddy” — the 255th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.