Boy's name
Ruairí
“ROO-a-ree”
IPA: /ˈɾˠuəɾʲiː/
'red king' — rua + rí
The story behind the name
Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair was the last High King of Ireland: he submitted to Henry II in 1175 and died a monk at Cong in 1198. Rory O'More's name became a password of the 1641 rising, and Rory O'Connor held the Four Courts in 1922.
Where the name belongs
Famous people with this name
- Ruairi O'Connor (born 1991) — Irish actor
- Ruairi Quinn (born 1946) — Irish Labour Party politician
- Ruairí Brugha (1917–2006) — Irish politician
- Ruairi McConville (born 2005) — Northern Irish association football player
- Ruairí Robinson (born 1978) — Irish film director
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Ruairí on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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