Rügge
surname · Latin script
/ˈʁʏɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rügge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4Mas Ruegge(measured from records)
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 44K
- DKDenmark1 in 75K
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 Rügge 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈970 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ruegge in US United States, CH Switzerland, NZ New Zealand and Rugge in ZW Zimbabwe, IN India, AO Angola.
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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rügge 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Rugge | 5 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Rugge | 7 |
| DE Germany | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Rügge | 27 |
| AO Angola | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Rugge | 1 |
| US United States | 139as Ruegge | 1 in 2.4M | 141 | Ruegge | 99 |
| CH Switzerland | 85as Rüegge | 1 in 99K | 85 | Ruegge | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 78 | 1 in 75K | 78 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Ruegge | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Rügge 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 nds (Germany), back
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 78 | #6,992 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 61 | #16,013 |
Reference works 1
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rügge?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʁʏɡə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Rügge have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 972 people named Rügge in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rugge.
- How common is the name Rügge?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 78 people named Rügge, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rügge?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%BCggeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rügge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.