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Roddrick vs Rodolfo

American parents have registered 33,856 Rodolfos since 1880, against 843 Roddricks. Rodolfo is still ahead, with 121 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Roddrick against Rodolfo, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Roddrick Rodolfo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rodolfo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1902 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1974, when Roddrick had 26 and Rodolfo had 384.

Side by side

  Roddrick Rodolfo
Total US births 84333,856
Most in one year 33610
Babies in 2025 under 5121
Estimated living today 79027,000
Median age today 3737
Peak year 19931981
Best rank 2,295th boys311th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,466th
First recorded 19561902
Girls / boys 0 / 84383 / 33,773

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Roddrick and Rodolfo.