Rhoda
Meaning of Rhoda
Rhoda is a vintage bloom of a name—born from the Greek word rhodon, “rose,” carried across Roman roads and Biblical pages until it unfurled in English gardens. Picture her as a crimson blossom tucked behind an abuela’s ear during a summer fiesta: fragrant, classic, and impossible to overlook. Rhoda first caught the world’s eye in the New Testament and later winked from 1970s television screens, yet she never lost the soft perfume of old–world charm. Like a well-loved bolero, she drifts in and out of the charts—never topping them, but always lingering in the background melody. Parents who choose Rhoda today are planting a hardy heirloom, one that laughs at fleeting trends and greets each morning the way a rose greets the dawn—petals open, dew-kissed, ready for stories yet to be told.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as ROH-duh (/ˈroʊdə/)
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Notable People Named Rhoda
| Rhoda May Knight Rindge was an American businesswoman and environmentalist known as the Queen of Malibu and the first female railroad company president. |
| Rhoda Broughton was a Welsh novelist and short story writer best known for her sensational early novels, including Cometh Up as a Flower. |
| Rhoda Holmes Nicholls was an English-American painter celebrated for her watercolors, oil paintings and scenes of South Africa. |
| Rhoda Greer Wise was an American Catholic mystic known for her reported visions and association with unexplained healings. |
| Rhoda Elaine Williams was an American actress best known for voicing Drizella Tremaine in Cinderella. |
| Rhoda Fox Graves was a suffragist and pioneering politician who became the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate. |
| Rhoda Abbott - Rhoda Mary Williams, also known as Rosa Abbott, was the only woman to survive after going down with the Titanic and escaping into the freezing water. |
| Rhoda Pritzker was a British-born American philanthropist who married into the Pritzker family, founders of the Hyatt hotel chain. |
| Rhoda Grant is a Scottish Labour politician who represented the Highlands and Islands in the Scottish Parliament. |
| Rhoda Janzen is an American poet, academic and memoirist best known for Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. |
| Rhoda May Southgate is a South African politician who served in Parliament and later co-founded the Federation of Democrats. |
| Rhoda Elizabeth Waterman White was an American author who published much of her fiction under the male pen name Uncle Ben of Rouses Point. |
| Rhoda Weeks–Brown - Rhoda Weeks-Brown is a Liberian economist and lawyer who became the IMF's General Counsel in 2018. |
| Rhoda Dorsey - Rhoda M. Dorsey was an American historian and Goucher College's first female and longest-serving president. |
| Rhoda Billings - Rhoda Jean Bryan Billings was an American lawyer who served as a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court. |
