as a Last Name
- 99,012
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Rhodes
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing in woodland (see Rode 3). This, the most common form of the name, has been influenced in spelling by the English name of the Greek island of Rhodes (Greek Rhodos), with which there is no connection. There is no connection, either, with modern English road (Old English rād ‘riding’), which was not used to denote a thoroughfare until the 16th century.
| 303rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 99,012
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Rhodes per capita
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