Rodriguez

At the 2020 census, 1,085,838 Americans bore the surname Rodriguez — 8th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 275.

By the numbers

People: 1,085,838
Rank: 8th
How common: 1 in 275
Per 100,000: 363.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

equivalent to Roderick (“son of Roderick”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 93.0%
White, not Hispanic 5.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Rodriguez

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 1960)Spanish politician
James Rodríguez (born 1991)Colombian association football player
Michelle Rodriguez (born 1978)American actress
Maxi Rodriguez (born 1981)Argentine association football player
Delcy Rodriguez (born 1969)Acting President of Venezuela since 2026
Robert Rodriguez (born 1968)American filmmaker
Ricardo Rodriguez (born 1992)Swiss association football player
Jaime Rodríguez Jiménez (1959–2025)Salvadoran footballer

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

Surnames like Rodriguez

Also a first name

Rodriguez has been given to 957 American babies as a first name since 1955, peaking in 1981. 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.