Ruder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: comparative form of rude: more rude
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈruːdər/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Ruder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 82K
- EEEstonia≈1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ruder itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
2,132 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)comparative form of rude: more rude
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ruder 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 | 2,132 | 1 in 156K | 2.1K | Ruder | 251 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Ruder | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 281K | 71 | Ruder | 47 |
| CA Canada | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Ruder | 31 |
| PH Philippines | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 968K | — | Ruder | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 102 | 1 in 82K | 102 | Ruder | 16 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Ruder | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 5 | — | 3 |
2,132 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Ruder 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 enm, alternative form of rother (“rudder”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, diamonds (one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦)
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)- Emil Ruderb. 1914CHSwiss typographer (1914-1970)
- William Ruderb. 1921USAmerican businessman
- Robert Ruderb. 1934DEGerman politician (1934–2015)
- Hanns Ruderb. 1939DEGerman physicist (1939–2015)
- Gardy Ruderb. 1954DEGerman writer
- Jon Ruderb. 1959NONorwegian singer
- Kristina Ruderb. 1977EEEstonian author (born 1977)
- Saskia Ruderb. 1994DEGerman association football player
- Sebastian RuderIEcomputer scientist
- Thomas Ruderresearcher
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,731 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 102 | #10,879 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 71 | #41,011 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,294 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,429 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ruder mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative form of rude: more rude Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ruder?
- In the etymology graph, Rudder is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ruder?
- In German /ˈruːdər/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Ruder have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Ruder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruder.
- How common is the name Ruder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,132 people named Ruder in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand 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/ruderThe 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, “Ruder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.