Reuf

given name · Latin script

Meaning: from Hrod-

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Reuf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SISlovenia1 in 44K
  • ALAlbania1 in 85K

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈200 people, est.

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Hrod-

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Reuf 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.

Where Reuf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈200 est.≈1 in 19K—Reuf3
SI Slovenia481 in 44K48—1
DE Germany≈47 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Reuf21
US United States≈42 est.≈1 in 8M—Reuf31
AL Albania361 in 85K36——
HR Croatia321 in 132K32——
XK Kosovo≈21 est.≈1 in 93K17—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: SURS — resident population given names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Reuf is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Reüf

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Kuwait

    Also written Řëűf

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Reuf is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, brother

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Reuf
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202351#1,057
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202249#1,041
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202049#1,005
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202548#1,114
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201748#947
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202447#1,120
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202147#1,059
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201947#995
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201847#967
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201446#933
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201346#931
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201246#919

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Reuf mean, and where does it come from?
from Hrod- Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
Is Reuf a male or female name?
Reuf is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Reuf have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 199 people named Reuf in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reuf.
How common is the name Reuf?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 48 people named Reuf in 2025, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.

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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, “Reuf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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