Rue Family History
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Rue Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived on a track ornpathway, Old French rue (Latin ruga ‘crease’,n‘fold’). English: variant of Rowe 1, from the Old Englishnbyform r?w, or a habitational name from places in Devon andnIsle of Wight called Rew from this word. UK 60; adm Norwegian:nhabitational name from any of over fifteen farmsteads so named,nnotably in Telemark, from Old Norse ruð ‘clearing’.nOV
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Rye, Brue, Roe, Rua, Ree, Re, Gue, Rule, Aue, Due