Rhodes
Pronounced /ɹəʊdz/
Pronounced /ɹəʊdz/
Babies named Rhodes per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
Greatest: 70 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 48 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 16 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 7 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 13 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 177 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,899 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.
From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοιά (rhoiá, “pomegranate”). ==== Proper noun ==== Rhodes (countable and uncountable, plural Rhodeses) An island of the Dodecanese, Greece in the Aegean Sea. A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations =====
From Wiktionary’s entry for Rhodes, CC BY-SA 4.0.