Rut f

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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Rut m for the male version of this name.

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of the Hebrew name רוּת (Rut) of uncertain meaning. Some theories:

1) Hebrew רְעוּת (re'ut) = 'friend' ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

2) Hebrew 'refreshment' ^[4]

3) Hebrew 'appearance, beauty' ^[4]

4) Hebrew 'shepherd' ^[2]

5) By English Puritans later associated with English ruth = 'pity, sorrow, compassion' ^{[6] [1]}

Related Names

Ruhte	♀
Rut	♀
Ruta	♀
Rute	♀
Ruth	♀
Rutha	♀
Rutt	♀
Ruut	♀
Ruuti	♀
Ruutti	♀
Ruutu	♀

Name Days

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Rut
Accusative:	Rut
Dative:	Rut
Genitive:	Rutar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Rut
Accusative:	Rut
Dative:	Rut
Genitive:	Rutar

Further Information

Bible

Rut is the central character of the book Rut (Ruth in English) in the Old Testament.

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		13140	23268	0	1
Norway[8]		152	385	0	0
Denmark[9]		108	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[10]		n.a.	935	n.a	2
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

Recent statistics trend^{[7][9][8][10]}:

Sources: ^{[7] [9] [8] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
5. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
6. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi