Rodrigo

Where Rodrigo comes from

Rodrigo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,728 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1945
    Rodrigo Duterte born
    President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
  3. 1994
    Rodrigo De Paul born
    Argentine association football player
  4. 2007
    Peak, #291
    1,177 babies named Rodrigo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #488.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rodrigo Duterte · President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022, born 1945
  • Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar · 11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader, died 1099
  • Rodrigo De Paul · Argentine association football player, born 1994
  • Rodrigo Bentancur · Uruguayan association football player, born 1997
  • Rodrigo Palacio · Argentine association football player, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.