Ruth


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
1440 famous people named Ruth found on Wikipedia.
824769 female, 2779 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 265-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 3-th in year 1893
Used in: Biblical, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Limburgish, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

Meanings

Ruth (Hebrew: רות‎‎ rut, IPA: [ʁut]) is a common female given name noted from Ruth the eponymous heroine of the eighth book of the Old Testament.

Fem. proper name, biblical ancestor of David, from Hebrew Ruth, probably a contraction of reuth "companion, friend, fellow woman." The Old Testament book tells her story.

Friend.

Famous People: 1440 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Babe Ruth 1895 American baseball player
2 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
3 Ruth Negga 1982 Ethiopian-born Irish actress
4 Ruth Wilson 1982 English actress
5 Ruth Madoff 1941 Wife of Bernard Madoff
6 Ruth Williams Khama 1923 First Lady of Botswana
7 Ruth Kearney 1989 Irish actress
8 Ruth B 1995 Canadian singer-songwriter
9 Ruth Davidson 1978 British politician
10 Ruth Gordon 1896 American playwright and actress
11 Ruth Jones 1966 Actress, script-writer, producer
12 Ruth Langsford 1960 British TV presenter
13 Ruth Westheimer 1928 American sex therapist
14 Ruth Buzzi 1936 Actress, comedienne
15 Ruth Connell 1979 British actress
16 Ruth Protagonist of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible
17 Ruth Porat 1957 Investment banker
18 Ruth Snyder 1895 American housewife; convicted murderer
19 Ruth Graves Wakefield 1903 American chef
20 Ruth Bradley 1987 Irish actress
21 Ruth Jiménez 1977 Spanish television presenter
22 Ruth Goodman 1963 British freelance historian
23 Ruth Rendell 1930 British writer
24 Ruth Roman 1922 American actress
25 Ruth Gemmell 1967 Actress
26 Ruth Handler 1916 American businesswoman
27 Ruth Brown 1928 American singer-songwriter
28 Ruth Ellen Brosseau 1984 Canadian politician
29 Ruth Graham 1920 Congressional Gold Medal recipient
30 Ruth Benedict 1887 American anthropologist and folklorologist
31 Ruth Madoc 1943 British actress
32 Ruth Pointer 1946 American musician
33 Ruth Carter Stapleton 1929 Sister of Jimmy Carter; Christian evangelist
34 Ruth Etting 1897 American singer, vaudevillian, musical theatre performer and film actress
35 Ruth Kligman 1930 Abstract painter, muse, writer
36 Ruth Hussey 1911 Actress
37 Ruth Sheen 1952 English actress
38 Ruth Warrick 1916 American actress
39 Dorothy Ruth 1921 Daughter of Babe Ruth
40 Ruth Belville 1854 British businessman
41 Ruth Lawrence 1971 Mathematician
42 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1927 German-born British-American author
43 Ruth Irene Kalder 1918
44 Ruth Duccini 1918 American actress
45 Ruth Beitia 1979 Athletics competitor
46 Ruth England 1970 British actress
47 Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy 1908 British lady-in-waiting and baroness
48 Ruth Chatterton 1892 Actress
49 Ruth Reichl 1948 American food writer
50 Ruth Radelet 1982 American singer
51 Ruth Cleveland 1891 Daughter of Grover Cleveland
52 Ruth First 1925 South African politician
53 Ruth Cohen 1930 American actress
54 Claire Merritt Ruth 1897 Wife of Babe Ruth
55 Ruth St. Denis 1879 Modern dance pioneer
56 Ruth Kelly 1968 British politician and Cabinet minister
57 Ruth Gruber 1911 American journalist
58 Ruth Hofmann 1986 German television presenter
59 Ruth Becker 1899 American Titanic survivor
60 Ruth McDevitt 1895 Actress
61 Ruth Ozeki 1956 American writer
62 Ruth Lorenzo 1982 Spanish singer
63 Ruth Underwood 1946 American musician
64 Ruth Paine 1932 Acquientance of Lee Harvey Oswald
65 Ruth Jebet 1996 Bahraini steeplechase and long-distance runner of Kenyan descent
66 Ruth Rogers
67 Ruth Smeeth 1979 British politician
68 Ruth Ann Minner 1935 American politician
69 Ruth Simmons 1945 American academic and administrator
70 Ruth McCartney 1961 Digital Diva
71 Ruth Fertel 1927 American businesswoman
72 Ruth Marcus 1958 Newspaper columnist
73 Ruth Ford 1911 American actress
74 Ruth Vega Fernandez 1977 Swedish-Spanish actress
75 Ruth Patrick 1907 American botanist and limnologist
76 Ruth Badger 1978 Businessperson
77 Ruth Lea 1947 British political economist
78 Ruth Moody 1975 Canadian musician
79 Ruth Crawford Seeger 1901 American composer
80 Ruth Riley 1979 American basketball player
81 Ruth Cadbury 1959 British politician
82 Ruth Asawa 1926 American sculptor
83 Ruth Barcan Marcus 1921 American philosopher
84 Ruth Mulan Chu Chao 1930 Chinese American philanthropist
85 Ed Ruth 1990
86 Ruth Watson 1950 Television presenter
87 Ruth Pfau 1929 German nun and missionary
88 Ruth Coppinger 1967 Irish politician
89 Ruth Herz 1944 German actor, judge and author
90 Ruth Dudley Edwards 1944 Irish writer and historian
91 Ruth Reinecke 1955 German actress
92 Ruth Bryan Owen 1885 American politician
93 Ruth Nelson 1905 American actress
94 Ruth Cracknell 1925 Television and Theatre Actress .
95 Ruth Osborne
96 Ruth Ann Steinhagen 1929 American criminal
97 Ruth Romcy 1927 Brazilian actress
98 Ruth Kobart 1924 Actress, singer
99 Ruth Perry 1939 President of Liberia
100 Ruth Dreifuss 1940 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
101 Ruth Johnson 1955 American politician
102 Ruth Messinger 1940 American politician
103 Ruth Donnelly 1896 Actress
104 Ruth Marshall 1966 Canadian actress
105 Ruth Kappelsberger 1927 German actress
106 Ruth Bernhard 1905 American photographer
107 Ruth Posner 1933 British actress
108 Ruth Lyons 1905 American broadcaster
109 Ruth Pelupessy 1940 Indonesian actor (1940-1996)
110 Ruth Sobotka 1925 Austrian-born American dancer, costume designer, art director, painter, and actress
111 Ruth R. Benerito 1916 American scientist and inventor
112 Ruth Eisemann-Schier 1942 Honduran kidnapper
113 Ruth Padel 1946 British poet and author
114 Roy Del Ruth 1893 Film director
115 Ruth Park 1917 New Zealand–Australia writer
116 Ruth Clifford 1900 American actress
117 Ruth Brauer 1972 Austrian actress
118 Ruth Neudeck 1920 Female Nazi guard; supervisor
119 Ruth Beeckmans 1982 Belgian actress
120 Ruth Orkin 1921 American photographer and filmmaker
121 Ruth Hubbard 1924 Biologist
122 Ruth Montgomery 1912 American psychic
123 Ruth Ellis 1899 LGBT rights activist
124 Ruth Leuwerik 1924 Actress
125 Ruth Klüger 1931 Austrian-American writer, literature scholar and Holocaust survivor
126 Ruth Norman 1900 American religious leader
127 Ruth M. Gardiner 1914
128 Ruth Plumly Thompson 1891 American writer
129 Ruth Johnson Colvin 1917 Literacy advocate
130 Ruth Kedar 1955 Brazilian designer
131 Ruth Wignall 0519 British television presenter
132 Ruth Dayan 1917 Israeli activist
133 Ruth Manning-Sanders 1886 British poet and author
134 Ruth Draper 1884 American actress
135 Ruth Copeland British singer
136 Nancy Ruth 1942 Canadian politician
137 Ruth Fuller Sasaki 1892 American Zen Buddhist
138 Ruth Wallis 1920 American singer
139 Ruth Behar 1956 Jewish Cuban American writer
140 Ruth Wodak 1950 Austrian linguist
141 Ruth Harkness 1900 American fashion designer
142 Ruth Fowler
143 Ruth Flowers 1940 British DJ
144 Ruth Lilly 1915 American philanthropist
145 Ruth Roland 1892 Actress, producer
146 Ruth Price 1938 American singer
147 Ruth Stout 1884 American writer
148 Ruth Fischer 1895 German activist
149 Ruth Elfriede Hildner 1919 Female Nazi concentration camp guard
150 Ruth Kadiri 1988 Nigerian actress, screenwriter and film producer
151 Ruth Kraft 1920 German author
152 Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech 1943 British academic, lawyer and bioethicist
153 Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo 1949 Writer, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awardee
154 Ruth Parasol 1967 American businesswoman
155 Ruth Hanna McCormick 1880 American politician
156 Ruth Greenglass 1924 American spy for the Soviet Union
157 Ruth Pitter 1897 English poet
158 Ruth Millikan 1933 American philosopher
159 Ruth Stone 1915 Poet
160 Ruth Kommerell 1923 German actress
161 Ruth Teitelbaum 1924 American computer programmer and mathematician
162 Ruth Richardson 1950 New Zealand politician
163 Ruth Malcomson 1906 American model
164 Ruth Chang American philosopher
165 Ruth Lowe 1914 Canadian musician
166 Ruth Elder 1902 American pilot and actress
167 Ruth Shalit 1971 American journalist
168 Ruth Golan 1944 German architect (1944-2012)
169 Ruth Martin
170 Ruth Ann Swenson 1959 Singer
171 Ruth Brück 1923 German actress
172 Ruth White 1925 Composer
173 Ruth Sahanaya 1966 Indonesian singer
174 Ruth Glass 1912 British sociologist
175 Ruth Laredo 1937 US-American classical pianist
176 Ruth Wisse 1936 American academic
177 Ruth Terry 1920 American actress and singer
178 Ruth Rose 1896 American screenwriter
179 Ruth Hunt 1980 Chief Executive of Stonewall
180 Ruth Stiles Gannett 1923 American children's writer
181 Ruth Taylor 1908 American actress
182 Ruth Ella Moore 1903 American bacteriologist
183 Ruth Zakarian 1966 American actress
184 Ruth Fernández 1919 American politician
185 Ruth Archer Fictional character from the British BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers
186 Ruth McKenney 1911 American journalist
187 Ruth Moschner 1976 German author and TV presenter
188 Thomas Del Ruth 1942 American cinematographer
189 Ruth Duckworth 1919 American artist
190 Ruth Landshoff 1904 German-American actress and writer
191 Mike Ruth 1964 All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive lineman
192 Ruth Minsky Sender 1926 Writer
193 Ruth Bratt British actress
194 Ruth Mott 1917 Television cook
195 Ruth Andreas-Friedrich 1901 German journalist and author
196 Ruth Escobar 1935 Brazilian actress
197 Ruth Krauss 1901 American poet, children's writer
198 Ruth Harrison 1920 British activist
199 Ruth Schweikert 1965 Swiss writer
200 Ruth Samuelson 1959 American politician