Hrodric

Romantic painting of Visigothic king Roderic (Marcelino de Unceta)
Gender	Male
Name day	March 13
Word/name	Germanic
Meaning	"glory" + "king, ruler"
Region of origin	Northern Europe; Visigothic kingdom
Variant form(s)	Hrœrekr, Rœrekr, Rorik, Rurik (etc.); Roderic, Roderich, Ruodrich (etc.); Chrodericus, Hrodericus, Rodericus (etc.); Rodrigo

Roderick (from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, from hrōþ "glory" + rīks "ruler") is a Germanic name, recorded from the 8th century onward. Its Old High German forms are Hrodric, Chrodericus, Hroderich, Roderich, Ruodrich (etc.); in Old English language it appears as Hrēðrīc or Hroðrīc, and in Old Norse as Hrøríkʀ (Old East Norse Rørik, Old West Norse as Hrœrekr, Rœrekr).

In the 12th-century Primary chronicle, the name is reflected as Рюрикъ, i.e. Rurik. In Spanish and Portuguese, it was rendered as Rodrigo, or in its short form, Ruy/Rui, and in Galician, the name is Roi. In Arabic, the form Ludhriq (لذريق), used to refer Roderic (Ulfilan Gothic *Hroþareiks), the last king of the Visigoths. Saint Roderick (d. 857) is one of the Martyrs of Córdoba.

The modern English name does not continue the Anglo-Saxon form but was re-introduced from the continent by the Normans. The Middle English given name had also virtually disappeared by the 19th century, even though it had survived as a surname. The given name was re-popularised by Sir Walter Scott's poem The Vision of Don Roderick (1811), where Roderick refers to the Visigothic king. The modern English name is sometimes abbreviated to Roddy.