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The rue Surname

rue Name Meaning and History

  1. French: topographic name for someone who lived on a track or pathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’, ‘fold’).
  2. English: variant of Rowe 1, from the Old English byform r?w, or a habitational name from places in Devon and Isle of Wight called Rew from this word.
  3. Norwegian: habitational name from any of over fifteen farmsteads so named, notably in Telemark, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The rue name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the rue family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of rue Families in the US in 1920
Number of rue families
 40-77
 14-39		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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