Italian (Calabria; Rodinò) and Greek (Rodinos): from a local personal name derived from medieval Greek rodino ‘rosy’, ‘red’ (ancient Greek rhodinos), which also had the sense ‘auspicious’, ‘promising’.

Italian, Catalan, and Portuguese: from fava ‘broad bean’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of broad beans, a nickname for a bean eater, or a topographic name for someone living in an area characterized by the cultivation of this plant.