Rod Family History
Rod Name Meaning
German: habitational name from any of several places called 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 . Norwegian (Rød): habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named from Old Norse ruth ‘clearing’. Czech and Croatian: from a short form of the Slavic compound personal names based on the element rod ‘family relatives’ e.g. Rodoslav.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022