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The ROD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,255 19828 0 5
United States (1880 census) 90 33638 0 2
Change since 1880 +1165 +13810 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 18 55398 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for ROD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 216 10060 0.001 10
California 94 29207 0.000 3
Florida 87 23078 0.001 5
Illinois 86 19086 0.001 7
Minnesota 83 11653 0.002 17
Top States for ROD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 16 11634 0.002 18
North Dakota 11 11341 0.002 17
Minnesota 83 11653 0.002 17
Idaho 20 10807 0.002 15
Iowa 43 12909 0.001 15

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ROD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ROD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ROD in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ROD by picking someone at random in Montana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ROD

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ROD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ROD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 774 61.67
White (Hispanic) 420 33.47
Black/African American 23 1.83
Mixed Race 20 1.59
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ROD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ROD in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ROD.

Similar names to ROD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ROD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ROD

The following words are slight variants of ROD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.