Ру

org · Cyrillic script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ру is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 463Kas Роо(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 51Kas Roo
  • NLNetherlands1 in 77Kas Roo

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ру itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

355 named Roo

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay, as Roo

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

РуCyrillic(measured from records)
RooLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ру counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ру is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain355as Roo1 in 141K355—1
RU Russia≈310 est.≈1 in 463K—Ру88
NL Netherlands223as Roo1 in 77K223—3
AR Argentina191as Roo1 in 238K191——
US United States159as Roo1 in 2.1M228—4
UY Uruguay66as Roo1 in 51K66——
FI Finland51as Roo1 in 109K51—1

355 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ру is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Рў

  • Serbian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, China

    Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Рў, Ru, Rú, Rü, Rù

  • Kazakh name12 spellings in the group

    Also written Ru, Рӯ, Рў, Ŕû

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Рў

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Рў, Рӯ

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ру is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Kazakh, tribe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Jacques Roux, b. 1752Émile Roux, b. 1853Georges Roux, b. 1853Michelle Perrot, b. 1928Guy Roux, b. 1938Michel Roux, b. 1941Dominique Roux, b. 1943Valérie Pécresse, b. 1967Andrés Nocioni, b. 1979Nolan Roux, b. 1988
  • Jacques Rouxb. 1752FRnot in their usual nameFrench priest and revolutionary (1752-1794)
  • Émile Rouxb. 1853FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (1853-1933)
  • Georges Rouxb. 1853FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter (1853-1929)
  • Michelle Perrotb. 1928FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian (born 1928)
  • Guy Rouxb. 1938FRnot in their usual nameFrench football player and manager (born 1938)
  • Michel Rouxb. 1941FRnot in their usual nameFrench chef
  • Dominique Rouxb. 1943FRnot in their usual nameFrench economist
  • Valérie Pécresseb. 1967FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (born 1967)
  • Andrés Nocionib. 1979ARnot in their usual nameArgentine basketball player (born 1979)
  • Nolan Rouxb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameFrench association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ру under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Ру have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 355 people named Roo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ру most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Ру itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 51 thousand people named Roo.
How common is the name Ру?
In Spain, the national register counted 355 people named Roo, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ру”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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