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rodewald Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place so named near Hannover or from places named Rodenwalde in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and East Prussia.
  2. from a Germanic personal name, Hrodowald, formed with hrod ‘renown’, ‘victory’ + wald ‘rule’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rodewald Families in the US in 1920
Number of rodewald families
 13-23
 5-12
 1-4
 0
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