Roddy

At the 2020 census, 6,696 Americans bore the surname Roddy — 5,074th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,696
Rank: 5,074th
How common: 1 in 44,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Rodaigh (“descendant of Rodach”), a personal name probably derived from rod (“spirited, furious”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Roddy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.6%
Black, not Hispanic 18.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Roddy

Rod Roddy (1937–2003)American radio and television announcer

People named Roddy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Roddy

Also a first name

Roddy has been given to 2,541 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1960. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.