Roddy

  • [ RAH-dee (English) ]
  • English, Scottish
Diminutive of RODERICK or RODNEY.

RODERICK   male   English, Scottish, Welsh
Means "famous power" from the Germanic elements hrod "fame" and ric "power". This name was in use among the Visigoths; it was borne by their last king (also known as Rodrigo), who died fighting the Muslim invaders of Spain in the 8th century. It also had cognates in Old Norse and West Germanic, and Scandinavian settlers and Normans introduced it to England, though it died out after the Middle Ages. It was revived in the English-speaking world by Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Vision of Don Roderick' (1811).
RODNEY   male   English
From a surname, originally derived from a place name, which meant "Hroda's island" in Old English (where Hroda is a Germanic given name meaning "fame"). It was first used as a given name in honour of the British admiral Lord Rodney (1719-1792).
FULL FORMS
ENGLISH: Roderick, Rodney
SCOTTISH: Roderick, Rorie, Rory, Ruairi, Ruairidh, Ruaraidh, Ruaridh
EQUIVALENTS
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Hroderich
CATALAN: Roderic
ENGLISH: Rod, Roddy
FRENCH: Rodrigue
GALICIAN: Rodrigo, Roi
IRISH: Rorie, Rory, Ruaidhrí, Ruaidrí, Ruairí
ITALIAN: Rodrigo
PORTUGUESE: Rodrigo, Rui, Ruy
SCOTTISH: Roddy
SPANISH: Rodrigo, Ruy
FEMININE FORMS
SCOTTISH: Rodina