Rutter (surname)

Origin and Meaning of Rutter

 * An occupational name for someone who played the rote, an early medieval stringed instrument.


 * Nickname for a cheerful person, from the Middle English word rote, glad, [Old English rôt]


 * Nickname for an unscrupulous person, a robber, highwayman, or footpad [highwayman on foot], from the Old French word routier.