Rueda

surname · Latin script

Meaning: wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)

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

/rweda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.8K
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.8K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈46,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
314 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RuedaLatin(measured from records)
РуэдаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rueda 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 Rueda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#130≈46,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K41Rueda173
ES Spain#16828,0351 in 1.8K28KRueda191
AR Argentina#34518,6121 in 2.4K19KRueda89
US United States—9,2531 in 36K9.3KRueda314
EC Ecuador#4818,1511 in 2.1K8.2KRueda64
BO Bolivia—≈5,100 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Rueda43
NI Nicaragua#205≈3,400 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Rueda30

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names. 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)

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

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Řuëdâ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ruéda

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Rüëdä, Rueëdae

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Denmark, Peru

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Ruëdâ

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Italy, Philippines

    Also written Rüëdä

50 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)

1400160018002000Lope de Rueda, b. 1505Nicolás Bravo, b. 1786Rafael Pardo Rueda, b. 1953Reinaldo Rueda, b. 1957Luis José Rueda Aparicio, b. 1962Juan Rueda, b. 1963Belén Rueda, b. 1965Raül Romeva i Rueda, b. 1971Mikel Rueda, b. 1980Marta Corredera, b. 1991

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Rueda,Dear Rueda, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Rueda,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Rueda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28K#180
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28K#180
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—19K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.3K#3,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.1K#3,790
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20248.2K#520
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—8.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.5K#4,953
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998155—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995144—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2010141—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1999131—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Rueda mean, and where does it come from?
wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Rueda?
A machine transcription gives /rweda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Rueda?
In the etymology graph, Rodaje is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Rueda have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Rueda in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rueda.
How common is the name Rueda?
In Spain, the national register counted 28,035 people named Rueda, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Rueda compared with other names?
In Colombia, Rueda is the 130th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rueda” — the 130th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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