The Rodes Family Name

Many Rodes families will find their roots under Rhodes, the form most records use. Read literally, Rodes points to “Dweller by a clearing”.

• You may also find the name written Rhoades and Roads.
• Without the “h” of Rhodes, Rodes is a simpler written form of the same name.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Rhodes and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Rodes surname pack.