Rodrigo

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Roderich in CR Costa Rica, DE Germany, PL Poland and Roderic in NL Netherlands, FR France, AU Australia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rodrigo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name808K records spelled Rodrigo14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Ecuador, Venezuela

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Rodrígo, Rodrïgo, Ródrígó, Řõďřïğô, Ródrïgó

• a separate given name36K records spelled Rodrigo3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Rodrígo, Rodrìgo

• Lao given name15K records spelled Rodrigo17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Chile, United States

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written โรดริโก, 'Rodrigo, Ródrígó, Rödrigö, โรดริโก้

• Polish given name5.4K records spelled Rodrigo3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Spain

  Languages: Polish, Czech

  Also written Řôďřîģô

85 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rodrigo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Visigothic: ‘fame power’. It was the name of the last king of the Visigoths, defeated by the Moors in 711. Rogerio $ Germanic. See }Roger in main dictionary. Also: Rogelio.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Portuguese, a male given name from Gothic, equivalent to English Roderick

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, a male given name, equivalent to English Roderick

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Roderico (senhor da gloria); Roderico, "master of glory"; principal place: Covilhã, Guarda, Marialva, Penamacor, Trancoso, Viseu, Porto, Guimarães, Aveiro, Portugal, Galicia, España

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Italian, sobrenome de matriz hispânica, ligado ao nome do fundador

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 117 years between 1904–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rodrigo Díaz de Vivarb. 1048ES11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader
• Alexander VI.b. 1431ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
• Rodrigo Duterteb. 1945PHPresident of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022 (born 1945)
• Rodrigo García Márquezb. 1959COColombian television and film director
• Rodrigo Prietob. 1965MXMexican cinematographer
• Rodrigo Paz Pereirab. 1967ESPresident of Bolivia
• Rodrigo Cortésb. 1973ESSpanish filmmaker
• Rodrigo Santorob. 1975BRBrazilian actor
• Rodrigo De Paulb. 1994ARArgentine association football player (born 1994)
• Rodri Hernándezb. 1996ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (born 1996)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 987 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rodrigo?

We estimate roughly 677 thousand people bear Rodrigo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Rodrigo have the most bearers?

Rodrigo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled rodrigo.

How common is Rodrigo compared with other names?

In Argentina, Rodrigo is the 124th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Rodrigo a male or female name?

Rodrigo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Rodrigo mean?

Recorded meaning: from Germanic *hrod- 'fame' + *rīk- 'power, ruler'