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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a wheelwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rat ‘wheel’.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a flour sifter or mill hand, from Middle High German reder ‘sieve’.
  • German : occasionally an occupational name from Middle Low German rader ‘adviser’.
  • German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ + heri ‘army’.
  • German : Americanized spelling of German Röder (see Roeder).

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