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Ruth

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unisex name with 2 related variants.

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German variant form of Robert, from the Old German variant Hrodperht.

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Rue

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This name comes from the name of the bitter medicinal herb, ultimately deriving from Greek ῥυτή.

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From a nickname that was originally given to someone with a rusty, or reddish-brown, hair colour.

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Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila, which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

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From German Rumpelstilzchen, possibly from German rumpeln meaning "make noise" and Stelze meaning "stilt", combined with the diminutive suffix -chen.

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A name meaning "young; humiliator (of the enemy)".

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From a Scottish surname, of Norman origin, which probably originally referred to the town of Brix in France.

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Prudence

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Medieval English form of Prudentia, the feminine form of Prudentius.

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Haru

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From Japanese 陽 meaning "light, sun, male", 春 meaning "spring" or 晴 meaning "clear weather".

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