Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name from German Ruder ‘rudder’, ‘oar’ + Mann ‘man’.
- German : from Ruder (pet form of the Germanic personal name Rothari, formed with hrōd ‘renown’) + man ‘man’.
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