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rod Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name from any of several places named Rod, or a topographic name for somene who lived in a woodland clearing, from a derivative of Middle High German roden ‘to clear land for cultivation’. Compare Rhodes.
  2. Norwegian (Rød): habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The rod name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the rod family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of rod Families in the US in 1920
Number of rod families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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