Rodde
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rodde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 69K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
- ESSpain≈1 in 2M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
≈980 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rodde 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 113 | Rodde | 175 |
| US United States | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 103 | Rodde | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 16 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Rodde | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 22 | 1 in 2.1M | 22 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | Rodde | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Rodde is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, A wooden stick; a twig, shoot; especially for the following uses:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, past indicative of ro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, simple past of ro
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)
- Adolf Roddeb. 1567DEGerman politician (1567-1617)
- Matthäus Roddeb. 1598DEGerman politician (1598-1677)
- Adolf Mattheus Roddeb. 1655DEGerman politician (1655-1729)
- Hermann Roddeb. 1666DEGerman politician (1666-1730)
- Mattheus Roddeb. 1681DEGerman politician (1681-1761)
- Jacob Roddeb. 1725RUtranslator and writer (1723-1789)
- Werner Roddeb. 17261726-1804
- Mattheus Roddeb. 1754DEGerman politician (1754-1825)
- Dorothea Schlözerb. 1770DEnot in their usual nameGerman scholar
- Paul Roddeb. 1894FRFrench aviator (1894-1917)
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 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 185 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 167 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 162 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 159 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 153 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 112 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 79 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Rodde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 984 people named Rodde in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rodde.
- How common is the name Rodde?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 22 people named Rodde, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Rodde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roddeThe 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, “Rodde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.