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Rodell vs Rodger

American parents have registered 21,556 Rodgers since 1880, against 818 Rodells. Rodger is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Rodell Rodger

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

Rodger has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Rodell had 5 and Rodger had 12.

Side by side

  Rodell Rodger
Total US births 81821,556
Most in one year 24680
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 50013,000
Median age today 5265
Peak year 19561949
Best rank 1,608th boys247th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,208th
First recorded 19121891
Girls / boys 11 / 8070 / 21,556

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Rodgers alive today are over 65; half the Rodells are over 52. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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