Rueckert
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Rueckert is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 356K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 380Kfew records
- ESSpain1 in 4.5M
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 Rueckert itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 named Rückert, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rückert in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, FR France and Ruckert in SG Singapore.
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.
Where the surname Rueckert is found
(measured from records)Rueckert 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Rückert | 82 |
| US United States | 934 | 1 in 356K | 959 | Rueckert | 180 |
| BR Brazil | 607as Ruckert | 1 in 349K | 607 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Rueckert | 21 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 685K | 7 | Rückert | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 61as Rückert | 1 in 138K | 61 | Rückert | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Ruckert | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Rueckert | 1 |
| BB Barbados | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Rueckert | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hanns Rückertb. 1901DEnot in their usual nameGerman church historian and theologian (1901-1974)
- Sonja RueckertDEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-8016-1634
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)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rueckert?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Rückert in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rueckert?
- In the United States, the national register counted 934 people named Rueckert in 2010, about 1 in 356 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rueckert?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rueckertThe 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, “Rueckert”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.