Male first name (English): Rod, Old High (two-part name); hruod = fame; rihhi = rich, powerful, power, rule, ruler, old Germanic or German two-part name, known by the last king of the Visigoths, Roderick, of the 711 in the fight against the Arabs perished Male first name (English): Rod, Hrodas island, and Old English (Surname as first name); hrod = fame; ey = island (Old Norse), from a family name, which in turn on a place name 'Rodene' with the meaning 'island Hrodas' back, the name Hroda means 'fame'