By Emma Waterhouse · Updated October 2026
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Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese
"ruby; precious gemstone, lapis lazuli + beautiful"
Spanish
"ruby"
Variation of Ruby, Latin
"deep red precious stone"
Hebrew, Yiddish, English "rose; happy, willing; fame wolf; rye valley"
"rose; happy, willing; fame wolf; rye valley"
Variation of Rudy, German
"famous wolf"
Sanskrit
"the roarer"
"wife of Rudra; wife of the roaring one"
German, short form of Rudolph
Shona
"happiness, joy, good fortune"
Latin
"red-haired"
Lithuanian
"rye"
Variation of Ruhamah, Hebrew
"loved, pitied"
Hebrew
Hindi
"spiritual"
Arabic via Urdu
"soul"
"ascending"
"adorned with gold"
Arabic
"Sirius"
Place name
"wind that scatters dust; or increase"
English word name
"deep, resonant sound"
Bulgarian, Macedonian
"red-cheeked"
English
"fame; gossip, story"
Bulgarian
"secret"
Chinese
"like the evening tide"
"silver"
"greatest beauty"
"to rise, ascending"
"rise, ascend; spell, incantation"
Japanese
"lapis lazuli"
Slavic mythological name
English place name
"rush clearing"
Finnish
"autumn foliage"
Feminine variation of Slavic "Ruslan," from the Turkic/Persian word for "Lion"
"Lion"
"the river Rusnė"
French
"redhead, fox-colored"
English, French
"reddish brown"
Russian place name
Czech, variation of Ruth
"companion, friend"
Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian
"compassionate friend; rue"
Lithuanian; Latvian
"rue; compassionate friend"
"faith"
English, from Hebrew
"compassionate friend + grace"
Compound name, blending Ruth and Anne
"compassionate and gracious friend"
Elaboration of Ruth or compound of Ruth and Etta, American, Hebrew
"friend; friend of the house ruler"
Elaboration of Ruth or variation of Ruthetta, Hebrew
"friend"
Diminutive of Ruth, Hebrew
"compassionate friend"
Finnish, Greenlandic
"rose"
