Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Rhodes.
- German : variant spelling of Rohde (see Rode), principally a habitational name from any of various places named Rohde or Rohden in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Westphalia, and Hesse.
- According to family tradition, a certain John Rhode (1752–1840) was a Quaker who came to SC from Germany in the 1770s and served as a baggageman or teamster during the American Revolution.