Given name
Ruairí
Ruairí is a masculine given name from Old Irish. It is used in Irish.
Original IrishRuaidhrí
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Irish Ruaidrí; its root is Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ruairí’s family of names
In Irish usage, Ruairí shares a linguistic root with the Scottish Gaelic form Ruairidh. In Irish usage, Ruairí has a conventional equivalent in the English form Rory. In Irish usage, Ruairí has a related form in Raidhrí.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ruairí has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Irish roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ruairí
- Roger CasementIrish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)
- Ruairí BrughaIrish politician1917–2006
- Ruairí RobinsonIrish film directorborn 1978
- Ruairí Ó MurchúIrish politicianborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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