Rhode Family History
Rhode Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English rode (Old English rod rodu) designating someone who lived by a woodland clearing or for someone who came from a place so named such as Road (Somerset) Rhode (Somerset) Road Farm in Colebrook (Devon) Rhode in Halberton (Devon) Roade (Northamptonshire) Rode (Cheshire) and Rodd (Herefordshire). English: topographic name for someone who lived by a reed bed from Middle English rode (Old English hrēod). See also Rude and Trude . German: habitational name from any places called Rhode (Lower Saxony Rhineland) and Rhoden (Hesse Saxony-Anhalt former Silesia). German: variant of Rohde and in North America (also) an altered form of this.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022