Last name: RODNEY

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All you have to know about the last name RODNEY

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RODNEY : This last name is indexed 16,719 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RODNEY : English (Lancashire): habitational name from a lost or as yet unidentified place perhaps near Markham in Somerset and apparently named from the Old English personal name Hrōda (a short form of various compound names with the first element hrōth ‘renown’) + ēg ‘island raised area in marsh’. The use of Rodney as a personal name probably developed in the 18th century. Compare Radney.

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