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Rule

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the medieval personal name Roul (see Rollo, Rolf).
  • Scottish : habitational name from a place in Roxburghshire, so named from the stream on which it stands. This name is of uncertain origin, possibly from Welsh rhull ‘hasty’, ‘rash’.
  • Probably an altered spelling of German Ruhl.

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