Meaning and history
Rod is a short form of Roderick or Rodney.
20042004: no US SSA record for this spelling
2005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 12 births, rank #6,460
2007: 13 births, rank #6,262
2008: 7 births, rank #9,871
20092009: 5 births, rank #12,491
2010: 6 births, rank #10,766
2011: 7 births, rank #9,600
2012: 8 births, rank #8,864
2013: 9 births, rank #8,118
20142014: 5 births, rank #12,108
2015: 6 births, rank #10,644
2016: 11 births, rank #7,157
2017: no US SSA record for this spelling
2018: no US SSA record for this spelling
20192019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: no US SSA record for this spelling
2021: 7 births, rank #9,714
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
20232023: 7 births, rank #9,763
Rod moved from #910 to #931 for boys between 1974 and 1975. Its highest annual birth count came in 1960, with 496 births.