Rhoda is a female given name, originating in both Greek and Latin. Its primary meaning is "rose" but it can also mean "from Rhodes", the Greek island originally named for its roses. The name was mostly used in the 18th and 19th centuries, but a Rhoda is mentioned once in the Bible in Acts.

Rhoda
Peter Returns by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695. Rhoda is in the upper left of the woodcut.
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameGreek and Latin
MeaningRose or “from Rhodes”

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Politicians

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  • Rhoda Moy Crawford (born 1989), Jamaican politician
  • Rhoda Grant (born 1963), Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament
  • Rhoda Fox Graves (1877–1950), American suffragist, woman's rights activist, and pioneering female Republican politician
  • Rhoda S. Jacobs (born 1937), American member of the New York State Assembly
  • Rhoda Perry (born 1943), member of the Rhode Island Senate

Singers and musicians

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  • Rhoda Chase (1914–1978), American blues singer
  • Rhoda Dakar (born 1958), British singer and musician, lead singer of the Bodysnatchers
  • Rhoda Hutchinson, a member of the Hutchinson Family Singers, a group popular in the 1840s
  • Rhoda Scott (born 1938), African-American hard bop and soul jazz organist

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