Meaning and history
From an English surname ultimately derived from a place name meaning “Hroda’s island” in Old English, with Hroda being an Old English given name meaning “fame,” Rodney was first adopted as a given name in honor of the British admiral Lord Rodney (1719–1792).
20062006: 606 births, rank #447
2007: 639 births, rank #438
2008: 545 births, rank #503
2009: 554 births, rank #492
2010: 460 births, rank #549
20112011: 461 births, rank #553
2012: 430 births, rank #593
2013: 392 births, rank #627
2014: 357 births, rank #696
2015: 347 births, rank #714
20162016: 341 births, rank #717
2017: 301 births, rank #777
2018: 273 births, rank #820
2019: 262 births, rank #853
2020: 262 births, rank #863
20212021: 234 births, rank #957
2022: 228 births, rank #990
2023: 183 births, rank #1,144
2024: 202 births, rank #1,076
20252025: 197 births, rank #1,091
Rodney moved from #962 to #990 for boys between 2021 and 2022. Its highest annual birth count came in 1965, with 11,086 births.