Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Greek : Field of roses
  • English : Lives near the crucifix

Boy name variations

Rhodes
Rhodas
Rhoades

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : variant of Rodes 2.
  • Galician and Portuguese : habitational name from any of three places in Galicia (in Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra), named Rodas, from the plural of roda ‘wheel’.
  • metonymic occupational name for a wheelwright, from roda ‘wheel’, cognate with 1.

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