Boy name origins & meanings
- German : Red-haired
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.