Rodríguez

Where the name comes from

• Spanish
  Son of Rodrigo
  Rodrigo < Germanic Hrodric
  Patronymic. DAFN: "Spanish (Rodríguez) and Portuguese: patronymic from the personal name Rodrigo." Rodrigo is a Germanic name that came into Iberia with the Visigoths; it was the name of Roderic, the last Visigothic king before the Muslim conquest. Its elements are usually glossed as hrod "fame" and ric "power". The origin of the Spanish -ez patronymic ending is debated: proposals include a Latin genitive, a pre-Roman (Iberian or Basque) suffix, and Latinized Gothic genitives; none is settled.
• Sephardic Jewish
  Iberian surname kept by converso descendants
  DAFN: adopted "at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics."

Rodríguez across traditions

• United States. DAFN calls Rodríguez "the ninth most frequent surname in the US."
• Visigothic Spain. Rodrigo (Roderic), the last Visigothic king, is the subject of many legends.

Who carried it

• Luis J. Rodriguez (Born 1954): Poet, novelist and journalist, born in El Paso, Texas.

Forms in other languages

Rodrigues (Portuguese and Galician), Rodriquez, De Rodríguez, Ruiz (a related reduced patronymic)

Rodríguez in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.