Rhodes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person who lives in or by a woodland clearing’, from Old English rod ‘clearing, glade’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rhodes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 20th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 700as Rose(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 719as Rose
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Kas Rosa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rhodes itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #356 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- 1 in 67 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 named Rose, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador, as Rosa
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rose in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and Rosa in EC Ecuador, ES Spain.
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)
‘Person who lives in or by a woodland clearing’, from Old English rod ‘clearing, glade’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rhodes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #156 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | listed | Rose | 94 |
| US United States | #168 | 254,275as Rosa | 1 in 1.3K | 254K | Rose | 593 |
| BR Brazil | — | 252,748as Rosa | 1 in 838 | 307K | — | 9 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 252,558as Rosa | 1 in 67 | 253K | Rosa | 19 |
| PH Philippines | #20 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | — | Rose | 183 |
| ES Spain | — | 86,111as Rosa | 1 in 581 | 93K | Rosa | 112 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 14,388as Rosa | 1 in 354 | 14K | — | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rhodes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dweller by the clearing(s), from OE rod(u); first attested Hugh de Rodes 1219 AssY
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Cecil John, British financier; island.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Aegean
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, obsolete spelling of Rodes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Rhodes (island)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cecil John Rhodesb. 1853ZABritish businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
- Leah Rhodesb. 1902USAmerican costume designer (1902-1986)
- Jim Rhodesb. 1909USAmerican politician (1909-2001)
- Donnelly Rhodesb. 1937CACanadian actor (1937–2018)
- Dusty Rhodesb. 1945USAmerican professional wrestler (1945–2015)
- Cynthia Rhodesb. 1956USAmerican actress, singer, and dancer (born 1956)
- Kim Rhodesb. 1969USAmerican actress (born 1969)
- Brandi Rhodesb. 1983USAmerican professional wrestler, professional wrestling manager and ring announcer
- Cody Rhodesb. 1985USAmerican professional wrestler
- Trevante Rhodesb. 1990USAmerican actor, former sprinter
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 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 91K | #343 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 89K | #310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 87K | #353 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 481 | #17,666 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 237 | #14,548 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 237 | #14,492 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6 | #7,856 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2003 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Rhodes mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person who lives in or by a woodland clearing’, from Old English rod ‘clearing, glade’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Rhodes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 298 thousand people named Rose in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rhodes most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Rhodes itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 67 people named Rosa.
- How common is the name Rhodes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 254,275 people named Rosa in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Rhodes compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Rhodes is the 156th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rhodesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rhodes” — the 156th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.