Reut
A Hebrew name for "friendship", carried by women in Poland's small Jewish community. Fewer than a hundred women here answer to it, and the records show no newborns at all this century, so meeting one stays with you.
Reut Pronunciation
Reut is pronounced RE-oot (/ˈrɛut/).
What Reut means
Where Reut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Reut comes from Hebrew, and the word means friendship. In Polish it reads as przyjaźń, or towarzyszka, a woman who keeps you company. The name arrived plain. It has no diminutive to shrink it and no masculine twin to lend it out.
The root behind it, r-'-h, points to tending and keeping company, the bond between neighbours who lean on each other. Reut appears in the Hebrew Bible as an ordinary noun for that bond, long before anyone answered to it as a name. In modern Israel it became a girl's name while staying a common word at the same time. A woman named Reut carries a noun that others still speak in plain sentences.
On a Polish class register, Reut sits among the Zuzannas and Majas as an outsider by sound, easy to read and hard to place. That foreignness is the point of it here. The name does not soften into przyjaźń for a Polish ear. It states friendship.
How many people are named Reut
1 in 259125 women in Poland is named Reut. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3779 among female names.