"son of Hodge"
The name Hodges is commonly a male name from the "English" origin that means "son of Hodge".
Hodges is an English surname recorded from the medieval period, formed with the patronymic -s suffix from the Middle English personal name Hodge, itself a familiar diminutive of Roger. The surname therefore has the sense "son of Hodge" or "son of Roger". Its use as a given name in United States birth records, beginning in 1917, belongs to the wider English practice of taking surnames as first names, the same pattern that produced given names such as Roberts and Hughes.
The pronunciation of Hodges is HAH-jiz.
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