Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Red valley
Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Roideáin ‘descendant of Rodán’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of rod ‘strong’, ‘lively’, ‘spirited’.
- German : variant of Rode 3.
- Swedish (Rodén) : ornamental name, probably from an unidentified place name element + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.