Roods Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 2
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 1
Sussex 3
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Roods Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Roods family

Profession Census Frequency
Annuitant 1
Domestic Servant 1
Lady 1
M D St Andrews M R C S Out Of Practice 1
Architect & Surveyor 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Roods

Name Census Frequency
Mary Roods 11
William Roods 11
Elizabeth Roods 9
Charles Roods 8
George Roods 7
Henry Roods 7
Ann Roods 6
Sarah Roods 6
Alfred Roods 5
Esther Roods 5
Frances Roods 5
Eleanor Roods 4
Eliza Roods 4
Thomas Roods 4
Florence Roods 3
Harry Roods 3
John Roods 3
Caroline Roods 2
Fanny Roods 2
Francis Roods 2
Hannah Roods 2
Harriet Roods 2
Isabella Roods 2
Jane Roods 2
Lucy Roods 2

Roods Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Roads 80% 3,653
2 Reeds 60% 2,634
3 Reads 60% 753
4 Roades 67% 709
5 Rides 40% 605
6 Rodes 60% 531
7 Rhods 80% 291
8 Rodds 80% 250
9 Roods 100% 158
10 Reades 50% 117

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The surname Roods is the 9th most popular variant of Roads.

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