Strode: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

If your family name is Strode, its origin lies with Stroud, an English surname. Read literally, Strode points to “Marshy brushwood”.

Heraldry and the Strode name

Arms linked to Stroud and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Strode and Stroud

Records show Strode as one of the forms Stroud took over time. The same family of names includes Stroude.

About 3,331 people in the United States were recorded as Strode in 2010, placing it 9,734 on the national list. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames. Get the complete Strode report, with a museum-style coat of arms.