Rod Family History
- Rod Name Meaning
- German: habitational name from any of several places named Rod, or a topographic name for somene who lived in a woodland clearing, from a derivative of Middle High German roden ‘to clear land for cultivation’. Compare Rhodes. Norwegian (Rød): habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 67,333 Historical Documents with Rod on Ancestry
- 39,015 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,283 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,864 Military Records
- 3,268 Immigration Records
- 8,903 Member Trees
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Number of Rod families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rod families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Rod census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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