Raue
surname · Latin script
Meaning: personal characteristic: rough, coarse-haired or rough-natured
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəuː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raue is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- SSSouth Sudan≈1 in 26K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
personal characteristic: rough, coarse-haired or rough-natured
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raue 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 | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | listed | Raue | 92 |
| SS South Sudan | #262 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Raue | 1 |
| US United States | — | 260 | 1 in 1.3M | 334 | Raue | 123 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 122 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 831K | — | Raue | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 38 | 1 in 455K | 38 | Raue | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | Raue | 13 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 401K | — | Raue | 14 |
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-2 register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Raue is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Typ zu Konsonantenvariation: Raue(n) 890+402. Belegt Guttural-/Auslautvariation; evtl. zu mhd. ruo(we) 'Ruhe'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Übername zu mhd. rûch ‚rau, grob‘; persönliche Eigenschaft. Bearer count: 1019.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Varianz mit Eintritt von g/h/v/w in Namen zu rau/grau; Schreibvariantenreihe.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Johann Raueb. 1610DEGerman librarian
- Christian Ravisb. 1613DEnot in their usual nameGerman orientalist (1613-1677)
- Jürgen Raueb. 1939DEGerman sculptor
- Peter Raueb. 1941DEGerman civil law notary
- Ronald Raueb. 1944DEGerman table tennis player and coach (1944–2023)
- Matthias Raueb. 1952DEGerman composer
- Katharina Raueb. 1963DEGerman politician
- Arne Raueb. 1970DEGerman politician (born 1970)
- Tim Raueb. 1974DEGerman cook
- Brigitte Raueb. 2000DEGerman rower
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 267 | #68,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 260 | #74,375 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 38 | #36,193 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Raue mean, and where does it come from?
- personal characteristic: rough, coarse-haired or rough-natured Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Raue?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəuː/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Raue have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Raue in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raue.
- How common is the name Raue?
- In the United States, the national register counted 260 people named Raue in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Raue compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Raue is the 262nd most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Raue?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raueThe 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, “Raue” — the 262nd most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.