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Rodriguez

Boy · rod-REE-gez · Spanish

Rodriguez is a boys' name of Spanish origin, meaning “son of Rodrigo”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Rodriguez mean?

Spanish: Spanish surname meaning 'son of Rodrigo'

“son of Rodrigo”

The ending -ez means 'son of' in Spanish surnames, as in Fernandez and Martinez.

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rod-REE-gez

Is Rodriguez a girl's or a boy's name?

Rodriguez is a boys' name.

How popular is Rodriguez in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1981, with 47 boys. It first appears in the records in 1955.

Half of all the boys named Rodriguez in the US since 1880 were born between 1976 and 1995, the years shaded on the chart below.

1955Busiest: 47 in 19812017
Rodriguez in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20178#8,835
201612#6,721
20155#12,080
20149#8,124
20138#8,784
201210#7,553
201116#5,429
20106#10,759
20097#9,859
20088#9,013
20070–
200617#5,068
200511#6,628
200414#5,487
200313#5,551
200213#5,388
200119#4,115
20005#10,341
199913#5,029
19989#6,308
199712#4,954
199611#5,180
199515#4,046
199416#3,905
199319#3,362
199214#4,106
199130#2,338
199017#3,461
198929#2,286
198825#2,362
198716#3,068
198618#2,776
198520#2,503
198414#3,105
198328#1,904
198238#1,595
198147#1,373
198027#2,003
197925#2,048
197829#1,794
197732#1,670
197636#1,501
197537#1,455
197427#1,747
197325#1,782
197227#1,680
197115#2,463
197019#2,057
196913#2,414
19689#2,906
19679#2,759
19667#3,247
19656#3,535
19640–
19636#3,645
19625#4,031
19616#3,650
19607#3,335
19590–
19587#3,273
19570–
19560–
19556#3,503

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