Ruhlé

Name: Ruhlé: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common

DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 373Kas Ruehle
CHSwitzerland1 in 106K

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 Ruhlé 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.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 186 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RuehleLatin

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ruehle in US United States, CA Canada, IS Iceland, Rühle in DE Germany, CH Switzerland and Ruhle in AU Australia, IE Ireland.

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 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ruhlé 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 Ruhlé is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	≈2,700 est.	≈1 in 30K	—	Rühle	73
US United States	892as Ruehle	1 in 373K	921	Ruehle	186
AU Australia	≈230 est.	≈1 in 113K	—	Ruhle	58
CH Switzerland	79	1 in 106K	79	Rühle	8
CA Canada	≈77 est.	≈1 in 492K	—	Ruehle	17
IE Ireland	≈24 est.	≈1 in 214K	—	Ruhle	2
IS Iceland	≈7 est.	≈1 in 49K	—	Ruehle	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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Ruhlé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States
Also written Ruhle, Rühle
a separate name4 spellings in the group
Also written Rűhle, Ruhle, Rühle

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Ruhlé have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Ruhlé in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rühle.
How common is the name Ruhlé?: In Switzerland, the national register counted 79 people named Ruhlé in 2024, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Ruhlé?

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruhl%C3%A9

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Ruhlé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)