Roda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: cutwater, stem (the most forward part of a boat's or ship's bow)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/roda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 6.8K
- ESSpain1 in 12K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
wheel
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Roda is read(measured from records)
Roda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish54%
cutwater, stem (the most forward part of a boat's or ship's bow)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Roda in English.
- Portuguese6.0%
wheel
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Roda | 43 |
| AR Argentina | #798 | 6,693 | 1 in 6.8K | 6.7K | Roda | 63 |
| ES Spain | #892 | 4,344 | 1 in 12K | 4.3K | Roda | 130 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Roda | 35 |
| BO Bolivia | #460 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Roda | 32 |
| UY Uruguay | #695 | 913 | 1 in 3.7K | 913 | Roda | 22 |
| CR Costa Rica | #439 | 324 | 1 in 16K | 324 | Roda | 21 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Roda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Sunrise, representing a new beginning and a bright future
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Indonesian, wheel (a circular device facilitating movement or transportation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of rōd
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)
- Aracadio Roda Rivasb. 1844ESSpanish politician
- Alexander Roda Rodab. 1872ATAustrian writer (1872–1945)
- Maria Rodab. 1877ITAnarchist, feminist, labor organizer
- Juan Antonio Rodab. 1921ESSpanish-Colombian painter, portraitist, engraver (1921-2004)
- Sergio Rodab. 1948ITprofessor of Roman history at the Università di Torino
- Ignasi Roda Fàbregasb. 1953ESSpanish composer, theatre director and cultural activist
- Joan Baldoví i Rodab. 1958ESSpanish politician
- Gianluca Rodab. 1959ITracing driver, 2012 World Endurance Championship driver
- Davide Rodab. 1972ITItalian racing driver
- Stéphane Rodab. 1973FRfootballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6.7K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #1,216 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.3K | #1,215 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 913 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 324 | #784 |
Reference works 10
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Roda come from?
- wheel Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Roda?
- A machine transcription gives /roda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Roda mean?
- In Spanish, cutwater, stem (the most forward part of a boat's or ship's bow)
- In which country does Roda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Roda in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roda.
- Where is Roda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roda is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Roda?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 6,693 people named Roda, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Roda compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Roda is the 439th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rodaThe 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, “Roda” — the 439th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.