Ruedel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ruedel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In American Samoa it is the 44th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 56Kas Rudel(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Mas Rudel
- ASAmerican Samoa≈1 in 4.5Kas Rudel
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 Ruedel 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
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 named Rudel, est.
Highest-authority source
American Samoa, est., as Rudel
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rudel in US United States, DE Germany, AS American Samoa 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruedel 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 | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Rudel | 93 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Rudel | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 317as Rudel | 1 in 143K | 317 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 232K | 21 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 289as Rudel | 1 in 1.2M | 364 | Rudel | 146 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 25as Rudel | 1 in 84K | 25 | — | 2 |
| AS American Samoa | #44 | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Rudel | 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; the dfa-band-1 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Ruedel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Rudel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ruedel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 317 people named Rudel, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruedel compared with other names?
- In American Samoa, Ruedel is the 44th most common surname of 292 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ruedel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruedelThe 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, “Ruedel” — the 44th most common surname in American Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.