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 goes back at least to the first century as it is recorded in the New Testament of the Bible (see Rhoda (biblical figure)).
Singers and musicians
Rhoda Chase (1914–1978), American blues singer
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
Rhoda Abbott (1873–1946), only female passenger to go down with the Titanic and survive
Rhoda Billings (born 1937), American lawyer and a former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Rhoda Haas Goldman (1924–1996), American philanthropist and heiress
(Rhoda) Lavinia Goodell (1839–1880), the first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (1854–1930), British-born American painter
Rhoda Pritzker (1914–2007), British-American philanthropist
Rhoda Richards (1784–1879), wife of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and, after his death, Brigham Young
Rhoda Wise (1888–1948), American alleged stigmatist
Rhoda Dendron, on the animated television series Darkwing Duck
Rhoda Penmark, in William March's novel The Bad Seed
Rhoda Morgenstern, title character of the television show Rhoda
Rhoda, in The Waves
Rhoda, in 12 Oz. Mouse
Rhoda Williams, protagonist of the 2011 movie Another Earth
Rhoda Swartz, in William Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair
Rhoda Henry, in the novels The Winds of War and War and Remembrance and the two miniseries
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