Rille
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ɹɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rille is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 939K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 939K (inferred from the name graph)
≈72 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rille is read
(measured from records)Rille is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French36%
obsolete spelling of Risle (river in Normandie)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.0%
groove (narrow channel; often one of several parallel ones)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rille 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 939K | 1 | Rille | 59 |
| US United States | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Rille | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Rille is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of rillen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of rillar:
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)- Rille Pulleritsb. 1969SEEstonian medical researcher (born 1969)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #157,053 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #147,593 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Rille mean, and where does it come from?
- A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rille?
- In the etymology graph, Rill is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rille?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 72 people named Rille in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rille.
- How common is the name Rille?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3 people named Rille, about 1 in 3.6 million 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/rilleThe 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, “Rille”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.