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Rodell

About 818 American babies have been named Rodell since 1912, most of them around 1956. It has not appeared in the national data since 2012. About 500 Rodells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rodell boys named Rodell

By the numbers

Total US births
818
Estimated living today
500
Median age today
52
Peak year
1956
Best rank
1,608th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1912
Girls / boys
11 / 807

How old the living Rodells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 818 babies given the name since 1912, about 500 are alive — 62 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Rodell is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1956

The most popular boys’ names the year Rodell peaked:

All the names of 1956

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Rodell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.