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This name makes me think of a poem by Jaroslav Seifert (a Czech who won the Nobel Prize for Lit in 1984), where he's mourning the destruction of Prague's ancient Jewish cemetery by the Nazis, and at one point in the poem, he's talking about some of the names on the stones and the lives they represented. One of them contains the line "Rhoda is the rose." Apart from this poignant poem, I do rather like the name.