Ruano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dier, OSp. ruano (apparently a deriv
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/rwano/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common surname.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 977(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.6K
- ECEcuador1 in 3.7K
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 977 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
dier, OSp. ruano (apparently a deriv. of ru(g)a street (see Rue i), perhaps because such soldiers were recruited in the street). 2. nickname for someone with reddish hair, from Sp. roano, ruano reddish, roan (apparently from a Goth. cogn. of Read i and Roth i).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #28 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 977 | — | Ruano | 62 |
| ES Spain | #346 | 12,802 | 1 in 3.9K | 13K | Ruano | 157 |
| US United States | — | 5,478 | 1 in 61K | 5.6K | Ruano | 245 |
| EC Ecuador | #767 | 4,533 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.5K | Ruano | 40 |
| SV El Salvador | #235 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ruano | 31 |
| CO Colombia | #915 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Ruano | 67 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Ruano 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 Spanish, dier, OSp. ruano (apparently a deriv. of ru(g)a street (see
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Italian, com sufixo -ano; indica habitante de localidades chamadas Rua
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- José María Bonillab. 1889GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan writer
- Alfredo Ruanob. 1932SVSalvadoran footballer (1932-1987)
- Juan de Dios Ruanob. 1964ESSpanish politician
- Teodora Ruanob. 1969ESSpanish cyclist
- German Ruanob. 1971GTGuatemalan footballer (born 1971)
- Virginia Ruano Pascualb. 1973ESSpanish tennis player
- Ángel Lópezb. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Julia Varelab. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish radio and television journalist
- Alexis Ruanob. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Adriana Ruanob. 1995GTGuatemalan sports shooter
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Ruano come from?
- dier, OSp. ruano (apparently a deriv. of ru(g)a street (see Rue i), perhaps because such soldiers were recruited in the street). 2. nickname for someone with reddish hair, from Sp. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Ruano?
- A machine transcription gives /rwano/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ruano mean?
- Recorded meaning: dier, OSp. ruano (apparently a deriv.
- In which country does Ruano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Ruano in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruano.
- How common is the name Ruano?
- In Spain, the national register counted 12,802 people named Ruano, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruano compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Ruano is the 28th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruanoThe 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, “Ruano” — the 28th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.