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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Red-haired

Boy name variations

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruanaidh ‘descendant of Ruanadh’, a byname meaning ‘champion’.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadháin (see Ruane).

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