Rodia
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Frequency: (141)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Italian: habitational name from Rodia, a locality in Messina, Sicily.
2. Greek (Rodias): from rodia ‘pomegranate tree’, an occupational name for someone who grew pomegranates or lived by a prominent pomegranate tree.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 11%. Carmela, Giovanni, Giuseppe, Lorenzo, Salvator.
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