Rodgers Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Rodgers Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Rodgers

The origin of the name Rodgers was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Rodgers is an occupational name meaning 'famous spear man' from a person who made their living as a Knight. Variants of the name include Roger, Rogerson, Rodger and Rogers. This is a Knightly name of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland , Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout these countries. Examples of such are a Adam filius Rogeri, Lincolnshire, a Robert filius Rogeri, Norfolk, and a Eufemia filius Rogeri, Suffolk, who were all recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England , in the year 1273. A Willelmus Rogerson was recorded in the 'Poll Tax' of Yorkshire in 1379. A John Rodgers, born in Maryland, 1771, who was the son of a Scots Colonel of Militia, fired the first shot in the war with Great Britain in the year 1812. In Ireland this name was introduced into Ulster Province from England and Scotland during the seventeenth century.