How common is the surname Roder?

1,506 people in the United States had the surname Roder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. It ranked 18,385th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Roder?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Roder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Roder getting more or less common?

More common. 1,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,506 in 2010, up 1.3%.

The surname Roder

A surname, carried by 1,506 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R360

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Roder is more common than 88.7% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname Röder, from the old personal name Rodher, from the Germanic elements *hrōþi (“fame”) + *hari (“army”). Compare Roeder. * Also a variant of Ruder (related to the noun rudder) and Reuter.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,506 people named Roder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,487.

#18,385

rank among US surnames

1,506

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.3%

change since 2000 (was #17,475)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,378	Prohaska	1,507	204,874
#18,385	Roder	1,506	205,010

Who is named Roder

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

93% of people named Roder identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Roder

Roder has the Soundex code R360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R360.

Questions

Where does the surname Roder come from?: * As a German surname Röder, from the old personal name Rodher, from the Germanic elements *hrōþi (“fame”) + *hari (“army”). Compare Roeder. * Also a variant of Ruder (related to the noun rudder) and Reuter.
How common is the surname Roder?: 1,506 people in the United States had the surname Roder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,010 Americans. It ranked 18,385th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Roder?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Roder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Roder getting more or less common?: More common. 1,487 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,506 in 2010, up 1.3%.