Rode Family History
Rode Name Meaning
German and French: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names with the first element hrōd ‘renown’. Compare Robert Rudiger . North German Danish and English: topographic name for someone who lived on land cleared for cultivation or in a clearing in woodland from Middle Low German rode Danish rothe Old English rod. There are a number of places in England named with this word for example Rode in Cheshire and the surname may derive from any of these. Compare Rhode . Slovenian: from an archaic derivative of rod ‘curly’ also ‘rude’ ‘fatless’ (figuratively ‘insipid’) and ‘barren’ hence a nickname for a person with disheveled hair or for a towhead or for a rude or insipid person or perhaps a topographic name denoting someone who lived on barren land. French (southern): metonymic occupational name for a wheelwright or topographic name for someone who lived by a waterwheel from Occitan rode ‘wheel’ (from Latin rota). French: habitational name from La Rode a place in Puy-de-Dôme named with Old Occitan roda ‘bush’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
