Rodrigo - Meaning of Rodrigo

What does Rodrigo mean?

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Rodrigo

[ 3 syll. ro-dri-go, rod-r-igo ] The baby boy name Rodrigo is pronounced RaoD-RIY-Gow in Italian or RowD-RIY-Gow in Spanish †. Rodrigo's origin is Germanic, and its use, English, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Rodrigo is a form of the English and German Roderick.

A variant of the name is the Portuguese contracted form Rui.

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Rodrigo is fairly popular as a baby name for boys. The name increased in popularity from the 1960s up to the 2000s; prior to that, it was of only very modest use. At the height of its usage in 2007, 0.053% of baby boys were named Rodrigo. Its ranking then was #291. The baby name has since experienced a drop in frequency. In 2018, it ranked at #500 with a usage of 0.030%, but it was nevertheless the most popular within all boy names in its group.

Baby names that sound like Rodrigo include Roderigo, Ratrea, Rhoderic, Rodderick, Roderic, Roderich, Roderick, Roderik, Roderrick, Roderyck, Roderyk, Rodrego, Rodrigues, Rodriguez, Rodriques, Rodericus, Rodriquez, Rhoderick, Rhodric, and Rhydderch.

† Pronunciation for Rodrigo: R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; G as in "grin (G.R.IH.N)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)"

A famous person named Rodrigo is Military Leader, El Cid, born Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, 1043 - 10 July 1099, Bivar, Castile.