boys:
8.7k births since 1910
#1263 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.7k births since 1910
#2892 (63rd percentile)
The name Rod is the #2,892 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,744 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 62.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,263 (72.5% percentile) for all time with 8,744 births since 1910.
Rod first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for boys in 1910). Birth data for Rod is available in 101 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Rod reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #335) with 229 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 260 births per million (ranked 48.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rod ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rod".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rod. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rod is pronounced as rahd, which has 1 syllables.
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