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Rodrigo vs Rodriquez

American parents have registered 27,759 Rodrigos since 1880, against 1,547 Rodriquezes. Rodrigo is still ahead, with 614 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rodrigo against Rodriquez, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rodrigo Rodriquez

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

Rodrigo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1918 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Rodrigo had 153 and Rodriquez had 45.

Side by side

  Rodrigo Rodriquez
Total US births 27,7591,547
Most in one year 1,17757
Babies in 2025 61410
Estimated living today 26,0001,500
Median age today 1936
Peak year 20071992
Best rank 291st boys1,546th boys
Rank in 2025 491st7,679th
First recorded 19181955
Girls / boys 5 / 27,7540 / 1,547

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 Rodriquezes alive today are over 36; half the Rodrigos are over 19. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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