Rodin Family History

Russian: patronymic from Rodya, a short form of the personal name Rodion, which is from Greek Hērodiōn, the name of a relative of Saint Paul and an early Bishop of Patras, venerated in the Orthodox Church.

Jewish (from Belarus and Ukraine): metronymic from the Yiddish personal name Rode, related to the Old Czech root rad ‘merry, joyful’. It is formed with the Slavic possessive suffix -in.

Jewish (from Belarus): habitational name from a place in eastern Belarus named Rodnya.

Swedish: variant of Rodén (see Roden).

Croatian: patronymic from a short form of Slavic compound personal names based on the element rod ‘family, relatives’, e.g. Rodimir. English and Irish: variant of Roden and Rodden. In some cases possibly also French: derivative of Rode.