Rukker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a yanker, one who pulls hard
Rukker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 13Kas Rucker(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 94Kas Rücker
- CHSwitzerland1 in 187Kas Rücker
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rukker 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
26,581 named Rucker, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, as Rucker
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rucker in US United States.
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)a yanker, one who pulls hard
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rukker 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 | 26,581as Rucker | 1 in 13K | 27K | Rucker | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 289as Rucker | 1 in 733K | 289 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 114as Rücker | 1 in 94K | 114 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 45as Rücker | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 27as Rucker | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 14as Rucker | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 6as Raker | 1 in 350K | 6 | — | — |
26,581 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 Rukker mean, and where does it come from?
- a yanker, one who pulls hard Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rukker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Rucker, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rukker most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Rukker itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people named Rucker.
- How common is the name Rukker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 26,581 people named Rucker in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rukkerThe 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, “Rukker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.