Throughout the world, Arruda (Rūta 
, Arruda 
, Арруда) is quite a rare primarily female, but scarcely male forename. The first name Arruda is characteristic of Lithuania, where it is quite a common female name, Latvia, where it is quite a rare female name, and Brazil, where it is an extremely rare dominantly boy's, but infrequently girly name. Much more prevalently, Arruda is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Rūta | United Kingdom, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden, Latvia |
| Arruda | Paraguay, United States, Portugal, Canada, Brazil |
| brás pereira de arruda Brazilian musician, BR (b. 1860) |
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inácio arruda Brazilian politician, BR (b. 1957) |
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| williams de souza arruda Brazilian politician, BR (b. 1922) |
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| inácio francisco de assis nunes arruda politician from Brazil, BR (b. 1957) |
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| maurício arruda Brazilian director, BR (b. 1964) |
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| nardi francisco de sousa arruda Brazilian politician, BR (b. 1971) |
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| wagner alexandre arruda person identified in the Museu da Pessoa collection, BR (b. 1974) |
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| edem almeida arruda Brazilian politician, BR (b. 1978) |
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| valder r arruda researcher |
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| bailey arruda researcher |
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| kalil sarat baracat de arruda politician from Brazil, BR (b. 1981) |
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