Rušt
surname · Latin script
Rušt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Swiss German surname, from Middle High German rust, from Old High German ruost (“elm tree”), from earlier *rus-tro, perhaps corrupted from Proto-Germanic *elmaz.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
12,086 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rust in US United States, CH Switzerland.
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)- Middle High Germanrust(measured from records)
- Old High Germanruost“elm tree”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*elmaz(measured from records)
- Middle Low Germanruste(measured from records)
- Old Saxonrasta(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*rastu(measured from records)
* As a Swiss German surname, from Middle High German rust, from Old High German ruost (“elm tree”), from earlier *rus-tro, perhaps corrupted from Proto-Germanic *elmaz. * As a north German surname, from Middle Low German ruste, from Old Saxon rasta, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, related to the English etymology above.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rušt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,086 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Rust | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 546 | 1 in 15K | 546 | Rust | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 446 | 1 in 39K | 446 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 240 | 1 in 23K | 240 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 172 | 1 in 1.2M | 172 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 44 | 1 in 133K | 44 | — | — |
12,086 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rušt mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Swiss German surname, from Middle High German rust, from Old High German ruost (“elm tree”), from earlier *rus-tro, perhaps corrupted from Proto-Germanic *elmaz. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Rušt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Rušt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rust.
- Where is Rušt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rušt is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rušt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,086 people named Rušt in 2010, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ru%C5%A1tThe 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, “Rušt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.