Boy name origins & meanings
- Gaelic : Red-haired
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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).