Rhodes

At the 2020 census, 86,574 Americans bore the surname Rhodes — 353rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,453.

By the numbers

People: 86,574
Rank: 353rd
How common: 1 in 3,453
Per 100,000: 29.0

Where the name comes from

From rodes, the plural form of Middle English rode, from Old English rod, rodu.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rhodes described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.7%
Black, not Hispanic 19.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rhodes

Cecil John Rhodes (1853–1902)British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa
Cody Rhodes (born 1985)American professional wrestler
Dusty Rhodes (1945–2015)American professional wrestler
Dustin Rhodes (born 1969)American professional wrestler
Trevante Rhodes (born 1990)American actor, former sprinter
Kim Rhodes (born 1969)American actress
Nick Rhodes (born 1962)British keyboardist
Cynthia Rhodes (born 1956)American actress, singer, and dancer

People named Rhodes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rhodes

Also a first name

Rhodes has been given to 2,960 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.