Origin and popularity of the name RODRIGO

Origin

Rodrigo : Spanish and Portuguese: from the personal name Rodrigo from ancient Germanic Hrōdrīc a compound of hrōd ‘fame renown’ + rīc ‘power kingdom’. Rodrigo is one of the most important Spanish personal names of ancient Germanic origin. It was borne by the last of the Visigoth kings and by a Christian saint Saint Roderick one of the 9th-century martyrs of Córdoba. This surname is also found in and around some of the former Portuguese territories of western India.

Cid : Spanish and Portuguese: from the honorific title Cid (from Arabic sayyid ‘lord’) borne by Christian overlords with Muslim vassals most famously by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043–99) El Cid. This was early adopted as a personal name. Compare Spanish Del Cid.

Vivar : Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called with Vivar especially from Vivar del Cid in Burgos province the place where the medieval warrior Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar also known as El Cid was born.

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