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    The surname Rhode

    An English place surname, carried by 3,523 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R300

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rhode is more common than 94.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English Rode, from Old English rod, rodu and/or Old English hrēod. The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification— was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.

    Rhode is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,523 people named Rhode in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,637 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,482.

    #9,237
    rank among US surnames
    3,523
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,688)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,233McGlone3,52787,538
    #9,234Porto3,52687,563
    #9,236Trader3,52587,587
    #9,237Bennet3,52387,637
    #9,241Kost3,52287,662
    #9,245Kinsman3,52187,687

    Who is named Rhode

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    91% of people named Rhode identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rhode

    Rhode has the Soundex code R300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R300.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Rhode come from?
    From Middle English Rode, from Old English rod, rodu and/or Old English hrēod. The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification— was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.
    How common is the surname Rhode?
    3,523 people in the United States had the surname Rhode in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,637 Americans. It ranked 9,237th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rhode?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Rhode identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Rhode?
    Rhode is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Rhode getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,482 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,523 in 2010, up 1.2%.