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First name origin & meaning:

English: Ruddy

First name variations: Reed

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English rudde, Old English rud ‘red’, ‘ruddy’.
  2. Americanized shortened form of any of various Jewish surnames beginning with Rud-.

This name appears in the following lists: Rock Kings and Queens