Origin and popularity of the name RODA

Origin

Roda : 1: Catalan: habitational name from any of various places called Roda for example Roda de Ter Roda de Berà Roda de Ribagorça from Catalan roda ‘wheel’ (from Latin rota) possibly denoting a waterwheel.2: German: habitational name from any of numerous places particularly in central eastern Germany named Roda or Rhoda.

Rodas : 1: Catalan: Castilianized form of Rodes 2.2: Galician and Portuguese: habitational name from any of the three places in Galicia Spain named Rodas (in Lugo Ourense and Pontevedra provinces) from the plural of roda ‘wheel’.3: Galician and Portuguese: metonymic occupational name for a wheelwright from the plural of roda ‘wheel’.

Rode : 1: German and French: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names with the first element hrōd ‘renown’. Compare Robert Rudiger.2: 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.3: 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.4: 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).5: French: habitational name from La Rode a place in Puy-de-Dôme named with Old Occitan roda ‘bush’.

Rodela : Spanish or Galician: possibly a habitational name from Rodela in A Coruña province Galicia so named from a diminutive of Galician roda ‘wheel’. This surname is found in southern Spain (Granada); it is not found in Galicia.

Rodes : 1: Catalan (Rodés): habitational name from any of several places called Rodés mainly those in El Pallars and El Conflent districts in northern Catalonia.2: Catalan: variant of Roda from Catalan rodes plural of roda ‘wheel’.3: English: variant of Rhodes. Compare Rhode.4: Croatian and Slovenian (Rodeš): nickname derived from archaic or dialect rod (standard Croatian rud; compare Rudes) ‘curly’ or alternatively from rod ‘family relatives’. In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the rare mostly Slovenian variant Rodež.5: French: habitational name from Rodez (Rodés in Occitan) in Aveyron which is first recorded in the 6th century in the Latin form Rutensis from the name of the Gaulish tribe Ruteni.6: French: habitational name from La Rode a place in Puy-de-Dôme (see Rode).

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