Rodericus

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, or Ruiz, 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.