Entry № 8953 · Hebrew origin

Rut Rut — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Friend / Book of Ruth"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "friend / book of ruth".

Rut is from the Hebrew Rūt.

Friend / Book of Ruth — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

רוּת
Transliteration
Rūt
Pronunciation
/ ruːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rut stands.

Rut does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ruts before her.

Real people

In fiction
Book of Ruth / Ruth the Moabitess
Hebrew friend companion + Book of Ruth ~6th-4th c. BCE + Ruth the Moabitess great-grandmother of King David + ancestor of Jesus in Matthew 1:5 + Shavuot reading
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Rut.

The number behind Rut.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rut reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.