As a surname and given name it is an Anglicised form of the Welsh Rhydderch. The given name Roderick is also an Anglicised form of the Gaelic personal name Ruaidhr / Ruair / Ruairi / ...
Roderick is a 1980 science fiction novel by John Sladek. It was followed in 1983 by Roderick at ... Finally, Roderick is given a rudimentary body and, through a series of misadventures ...