Given name
Ruaidrí
“red”·“king”
Ruaidrí is a masculine given name. It is used in Old Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ruaidrí is built from elements meaning “red” and “king”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Old Irish rúad (“red”) + rí (“king”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ruaidrí’s family of names
In Old Irish usage, Ruaidrí has a later derivative in Rory.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ruaidrí has relatives in 3 languages.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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