MEANING & HISTORY
What does Rod mean?
Rod is expressly documented as a short form of Roderick or Rodney. Those longer names have different histories, so the nickname does not carry one exclusive compound meaning.
It is a personal-name shortening rather than necessarily an adoption of the English noun rod.
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Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
People with the name Rod
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Rod Navarro
Filipino actor (1936–2003)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Rod Espinosa
Filipino comic writer
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Rod
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Names in this collection
- Rob♂Short form of Robert; bright fame
- Rody♂Familiar form of Rodelio, Rodolfo or Rodrigo
- Roi♂Galician Rodrigo short form; Hebrew my shepherd
- Ron♂Short Ronald; also a separate Hebrew song-and-joy name
- Ros♂♀Short form of Rosalind, Rosamund, and other Ros-names
- Roy♂King in one tradition; red-haired in another
- Rodel♂Documented familiar alias paired with Rodolfo
- Roel♂Dutch familiar form of Roeland or Roelof
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Recorded use
- Wikidata
- 3 person records with this given name · Q19819742 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.