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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Ruddy

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English rudde, Old English rud ‘red’, ‘ruddy’.
  • Americanized shortened form of any of various Jewish surnames beginning with Rud-.

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