Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.
RODES
As described in historical dictionaries
Patronymica Britannica (1860)
RODES. Tiiis family claim from Gerard de Rodes, a feudal iDaron, whose caput baronias was Horncastle, co. Lincoln. He lived in the reigns of Henry II., Richard I., John, and Henry III. The place from which the name was assumed does not aj)pear.