Rutan
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Rutan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 140K
- CACanada≈1 in 190Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
2,376 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 Rutan is found
(measured from records)Rutan 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 | 2,376 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Rutan | 265 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Rutan | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Rutan | 11 |
| IN India | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 6 | — | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 575K | listed | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Rutan | 5 |
| DM Dominica | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 1 | — | 1 |
2,376 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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)Rutan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, third-person plural present subjunctive of rutar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of rumah tahanan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of ruta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kxd, rattan
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)- Dick Rutanb. 1938USAmerican aviator, test pilot, and recipient of the Purple Heart medal
- Burt Rutanb. 1943USAmerican aerospace engineer (born 1943)
- Erik Rutanb. 1971USAmerican musician and record producer
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)11 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 Rutan?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Rutan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rutan. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, India and Cameroon; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rutan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,376 people named Rutan in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rutan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rutanThe 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, “Rutan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.