Rodger Boy Name

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The name Rodger is of Germanic origin, and means famous spear. The table below indicates the number of times the name Rodger has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Rodger**
Use of the Name Rodger for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
20,105	8,583	738	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Rodger has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Rodger first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1907, which is the first year shown on the table. Rodger last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1987, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Rodger**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1907	804	12
1908
1909
1910
1911	727	20
1912	986	22
1913	910	30
1914	962	34
1915	890	49
1916	994	42
1917	957	46
1918	784	70
1919	825	63
1920	719	82
1921	882	63
1922	819	69
1923	835	67
1924	787	74
1925	630	102
1926	673	89
1927	594	109
1928	592	110
1929	547	116
1930	528	128
1931	472	144
1932	462	154
1933	429	165
1934	451	155
1935	436	168
1936	355	231
1937	364	222
1938	323	293
1939	320	293
1940	318	316
1941	317	339
1942	300	413
1943	263	531
1944	262	509
1945	243	547
1946	242	641
1947	265	643
1948	251	657
1949	247	677
1950	267	608
1951	285	573
1952	296	564
1953	271	656
1954	281	626
1955	306	563
1956	332	501
1957	346	474
1958	364	452
1959	355	483
1960	369	455
1961	366	474
1962	400	412
1963	393	413
1964	414	378
1965	421	344
1966	423	325
1967	432	308
1968	446	295
1969	472	265
1970	504	256
1971	521	243
1972	573	194
1973	595	175
1974	613	172
1975	731	129
1976	699	141
1977	742	133
1978	773	119
1979	730	141
1980	769	130
1981	798	121
1982	889	101
1983	836	109
1984	927	90
1985	928	96
1986
1987	999	91
Totals:		20,105		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Rodger as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Rodger appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 77 times during the last 125 years.

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