Rhodes surname meaning

Rhodes is an English topographic or habitational surname. It can describe someone who lived by woodland clearings, from Middle English rode and Old English rod or rodu, or someone who came from a place named Rhodes, especially in northern England. The spelling’s initial Rh was introduced later by clerks who associated it with the famous Greek island; that classical association is not the source of the English surname. Rhode, Rode, and Roades are related forms. Place is the best catalog type because the name points to a landscape or settlement, and the core explanation has high confidence.