as a Last Name
- 1,000
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Rod
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 23,296th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,000
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Rod per capita
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