Rode Family History
- Rode Name Meaning
- German: from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names with the first element hrod ‘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. Compare English Rhodes. English: habitational name from any of the many places named with this word, as for example Rode in Cheshire. Slovenian: topographic name from the adjective rod ‘barren’, denoting someone who lived on a barren land. Slovenian: nickname from the Slovenian dialect word rode ‘person with disheveled hair’, a derivative of rod ‘curly’ or ‘hairy’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 214,696 Historical Documents with Rode on Ancestry
- 106,959 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,834 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,412 Military Records
- 7,378 Immigration Records
- 70,113 Member Trees
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Number of Rode families
 49 - 95  17 - 48 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rode families
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15 - 28 6 - 14 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rode families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rode census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 59
- Confederate
- 4
- Union
- 55
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