Rodén
surname · Latin script
Rodén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): W Midlands: esp. Staffs;. locative name from Roden in High Ercall (Shrops).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 50K
- DEGermany≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 362 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roden in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): W Midlands: esp. Staffs;. locative name from Roden in High Ercall (Shrops). The place, recorded as Rodene in 1242, takes its name from the river Roden, itself probably named in Celtic as ‘swift river’.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rodén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Roden | 8 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #254 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Roden | 2 |
| US United States | — | 6,653 | 1 in 50K | 6.7K | Roden | 362 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 2.8K | Roden | 144 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Roden | 71 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Roden | 23 |
| GD Grenada | — | 4 | 1 in 28K | 4 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Akseli Rodénb. 1910FIFinnish politician
- Marie-Louise Rodénb. 1953SESwedish historian and author
- Jessica Rodénb. 1976SESwedish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rodén mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): W Midlands: esp. Staffs;. locative name from Roden in High Ercall (Shrops). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Rodén have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Rodén in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roden.
- How common is the name Rodén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,653 people named Rodén in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Rodén compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Rodén is the 254th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rodén” — the 254th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.