Rüpke

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Herkunftssurname zum Siedlungsnamen Rübke bei Buxtehude

Rüpke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 250K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 416K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈190 people, est.

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rupke in US United States, CA Canada, NL Netherlands and 1 more.

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(measured from records)

recorded in German

Herkunftssurname zum Siedlungsnamen Rübke bei Buxtehude. 97 Bearer.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rüpke 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 Rüpke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈190 est.≈1 in 416K—Rüpke26
US United States1571 in 2.1M157Rupke90
NL Netherlands691 in 250K69Rupke7
CA Canada≈63 est.≈1 in 600K—Rupke30
LB Lebanon≈5 est.≈1 in 1M—Rupke1

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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Rüpke 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 Rupke

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rupke

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rupke

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt

    Also written Rupke

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rupke

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Jörg Rüpkeb. 1962DEGerman classical philologist and religious studies scholar

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)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Rüpke mean?
Recorded meaning: Herkunftssurname zum Siedlungsnamen Rübke bei Buxtehude.
In which country does Rüpke have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 193 people named Rüpke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rüpke.
Where is Rüpke most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rüpke is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rüpke?
In the United States, the national register counted 157 people named Rüpke in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million 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, “Rüpke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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