How common is the surname Rodda?

1,331 people in the United States had the surname Rodda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 231,965 Americans. It ranked 20,076th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rodda?

In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Rodda identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Rodda?

Jennifer Rowe, Australian fiction writer, for children as Emily Rodda (pseudonym), mystery for adults as .

Where is the surname Rodda most common?

Wikidata records people named Rodda in Australia.

Is the surname Rodda getting more or less common?

More common. 1,227 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,331 in 2010, up 8.5%.

The surname Rodda

A surname, carried by 1,331 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rodda is more common than 87.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,331 people named Rodda in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 231,965 Americans. That is up 8.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,227.

#20,076

rank among US surnames

1,331

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+8.5%

change since 2000 (was #20,191)

Who is named Rodda

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

89% of people named Rodda identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.8%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Roddas

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jennifer Rowe
Australian fiction writer, for children as Emily Rodda (pseudonym), mystery for adults as , born 1948

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Rodda

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

Questions

How common is the surname Rodda?: 1,331 people in the United States had the surname Rodda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 231,965 Americans. It ranked 20,076th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rodda?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Rodda identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Rodda?: Jennifer Rowe, Australian fiction writer, for children as Emily Rodda (pseudonym), mystery for adults as .
Where is the surname Rodda most common?: Wikidata records people named Rodda in Australia.
Is the surname Rodda getting more or less common?: More common. 1,227 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,331 in 2010, up 8.5%.