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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : topographic name or nickname from a diminutive of ruta ‘rue’ (see Ruta).
  • Czech : metronymic from a pet form of the female personal name Rut (see Ruth).
  • Czech : habitational name from Vroutek in north Bohemia.

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