Ruegg
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹuɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruegg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Rügg.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 75Kas Rugg
- USUnited States1 in 111Kas Rugg
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 Ruegg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 297 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
6,118 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rugg in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
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)
- GermanRügg(measured from records)
- Middle Englishrygge“ridge”(inferred from the name graph)via Rügg
- Old Englishhrycg(inferred from the name graph)via Rügg
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Borrowed from German Rügg.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruegg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #210 | 6,118 | 1 in 1.4K | 6.1K | Ruegg | 48 |
| US United States | — | 2,986as Rugg | 1 in 111K | 3K | Rugg | 297 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 787 | Rugg | 109 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Rugg | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Rugg | 37 |
| RE Réunion | #200 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Rugg | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Rugg | 20 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Rugg | 4 |
6,118 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling rüegg. 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 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis H. Rueggb. 1822GBSherborne (Dorset) publisher and newspaper proprietor
- Henri Rueggb. 1930CHphysicist (1930-2020)
- David Seyfort Rueggb. 1931USTibetan Buddhist writer (1931–2021)
- Ilona Rueggb. 1949CHSwiss artist in Brussels
- Jean Rueggb. 1958CHresearcher
- Lukas Rueggb. 1996CHSwiss cyclist
- Urs RueggCHresearcher
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 659 | #36,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 653 | #34,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 630 | #34,071 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 79 | #38,380 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| 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 Ruegg mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Rügg. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ruegg?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹuɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ruegg have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Ruegg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruegg.
- Where is Ruegg most common?
- Ruegg is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ruegg?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6,118 people named Ruegg in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruegg compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Ruegg is the 210th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rueggThe 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, “Ruegg” — the 210th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.