Ruthven Family History
Ruthven Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name, traditionally pronounced ‘Ri-ven’,
from any of various places in Scotland so named, especially one near
Perth and one in Inverness-shire. The place is named either in Gaelic
(ruadh ‘red’ + mhaighin ‘place’) or with a cognate of
Welsh rhudd faen ‘red stone’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ruthven Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ruthven families
 51 - 100  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ruthven families
|
44 - 86 15 - 43 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ruthven Family Origin
Ruthven Emigration Information (US)
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Ruthven Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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