Rodney
Rodney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 200 births. Its best rank was 33rd, in 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2000.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 196511,086 births
- Best rank
- #33in 1965
- Since 1880
- 248,127people given the name
The story in the numbers
246,952 boys have been named Rodney in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1965, with 11,086 births — 0.60% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 200 births in 2024, against 11,086 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 29%. It has spent 143 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,175 girls have also been given it, 0.47% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rodney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 112 | |
| 1890s | 162 | |
| 1900s | 194 | |
| 1910s | 1,775 | |
| 1920s | 4,519 | |
| 1930s | 9,695 | |
| 1940s | 24,846 | |
| 1950s | 54,817 | |
| 1960s | 72,192 | |
| 1970s | 37,447 | |
| 1980s | 17,874 | |
| 1990s | 12,122 | |
| 2000s | 6,466 | |
| 2010s | 3,624 | |
| 2020s | 1,107 |
In 1965, its biggest year
Rodney was the 33rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1965 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1965.
Names that rose and fell with Rodney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lonnypeak 1957
- Darylpeak 1956
- Teddpeak 1963
- Jonpeak 1964
- Darylepeak 1970
- Darrellpeak 1958
- Keithpeak 1957
- Montypeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.