Rus
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic stem *rūz- / sl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹʌs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rus is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 228K
- SISlovenia≈1 in 247K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, 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 Ruthenia in US United States, PH Philippines.
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)
from the Germanic stem *rūz- / sl. rusŭ 'reddish, blond'; also see Rausch, Reuße, Rusch
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | listed | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 228K | listed | — | 19 |
| US United States | 249 | 1 in 1.3M | 1.2K | Ruthenia | 100 |
| PH Philippines | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Ruthenia | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 45 | — | 58 |
| BE Belgium | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 307K | 275 | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 463K | 48 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 247K | 1.3K | — | 4 |
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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the id-github-names register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Rus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Slavic stem from asl. rusu 'reddish, blond'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev/Kyiv and the Volga and Dnieper/Dnipro gave rise to the Rus' principalities.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, "1) redhead; 2) Russian."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Norwegian Bokmål, The mental state of inebriation, intoxication, brought on by using alcohol or other drugs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Rus (Scandinavian settlers and merchants in Eastern Europe, particularly in Kievan Rus')
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josip Rusb. 1893SISlovene political commissar (1893-1985)
- Sara Rusb. 1927ARArgentine activist
- Miloš Rusb. 1962SISlovenian association football player and manager
- Daniela L. Rusb. 1963USRomanian-born American roboticist
- Flaviu Călin Rusb. 1970RORomanian politician
- Cristina Rusb. 1981RORomanian singer and dancer
- Laurențiu Rusb. 1985RORomanian footballer
- Laura Rusb. 1987RORomanian footballer
- Florian Rusb. 1989RORomanian singer and songwriter
- Adrian Rusb. 1996RORomanian association football player
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)
Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.3K | #92 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,932 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 804 | #28,049 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 275 | #6,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 159 | #33,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #33,297 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #23,682 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 45 | #54,231 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 39 | #30,933 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 12 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Rus come from?
- from the Germanic stem *rūz- / sl. rusŭ 'reddish, blond'; also see Rausch, Reuße, Rusch Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Rus mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Germanic stem *rūz- / sl.
- How do you pronounce Rus?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹʌs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Rus in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Rus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 249 people named Rus in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rusThe 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, “Rus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.