Family name origins & meanings
- German (Rödel) : metonymic occupational name for a scribe or registrar, from Middle High German rodel ‘list’, ‘roll’ (Latin rotula ‘scroll’).
- German (Rödel) : habitational name from Rödel in Saxony and Rhineland.
- German (Rödel) : from a pet form of a Germanic personal name, Rodilo, formed with hrōd ‘fame’, ‘renown’.