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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Red-haired

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German (Bavaria, Tyrol) : from Middle High German (ge)riute ‘clearing’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing or occupational name for a clearer of woodland, or a habitational name from a place so named in Bavaria.
  • South German (Bavaria, Tyrol) : American spelling of Rath.

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