Rodriguez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized Spanish surname, literally 'son of Rodrigo' (Spanish form of Roderick)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/roðɾiʝeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rodriguez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 11(measured from records)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 29
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 37
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #18 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 602 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11 (inferred from the name graph)
1,094,924 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rodrìguez in CR Costa Rica.
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)
Anglicized Spanish surname, literally 'son of Rodrigo' (Spanish form of Roderick).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rodriguez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #9 | 1,094,924 | 1 in 304 | 1.1M | Rodriguez | 602 |
| ES Spain | #5 | 939,214 | 1 in 53 | 939K | Rodriguez | 326 |
| VE Venezuela | #1 | ≈750,000 est. | ≈1 in 38 | 5.1K | Rodriguez | 178 |
| AR Argentina | #2 | 622,643 | 1 in 73 | 623K | Rodriguez | 219 |
| CO Colombia | #1 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 80 | 9.2K | Rodriguez | 242 |
| UY Uruguay | #1 | 295,508 | 1 in 11 | 296K | Rodriguez | 158 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #1 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 37 | — | Rodriguez | 141 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 165,886 | 1 in 31 | 166K | Rodrìguez | 169 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #2 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 29 | — | Rodriguez | 142 |
1,094,924 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Rodriguez 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 English, A patrilineal surname from Spanish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Rodrigo; bef. 1492
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, de matriz hispânica, da forma latina Roderici
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, Rodriguez Sanchez [Manolete]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Manuel, Spanish bullfighter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Diego Velázquezb. 1599ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1599–1660)
- Jorge Alessandrib. 1896CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician and President (1896–1986)
- Antonio Carbajalb. 1929MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (1929–2023)
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapaterob. 1960ESSpanish politician
- Delcy Rodriguezb. 1969VEActing President of Venezuela since 2026
- Alex Rodriguezb. 1975USAmerican baseball player and broadcaster
- Michelle Rodriguezb. 1978USAmerican actress
- Pedro Rodriguezb. 1987ESSpanish association football player (born 1987)
- James Rodríguezb. 1991COColombian association football player
- Georgina Rodríguezb. 1994ARArgentine-Spanish model (born 1994)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 71 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1M | #9 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1M | #8 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 939K | #2 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 939K | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 804K | #9 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 623K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 296K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 166K | #1 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 460 | #1 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Rodriguez mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglicized Spanish surname, literally 'son of Rodrigo' (Spanish form of Roderick). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Rodriguez?
- A machine transcription gives /roðɾiʝeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Rodriguez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Rodriguez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rodriguez.
- Where is Rodriguez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rodriguez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rodriguez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,094,924 people named Rodriguez in 2010, about 1 in 304 residents.
- How common is Rodriguez compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rodriguez is the 9th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rodriguezThe 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, “Rodriguez” — the 9th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.