Ruehl
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ruehl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11Kas Rühl(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 38Kas Ruhl
- CACanada≈1 in 59Kas Ruhl
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 Ruehl 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 718K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 named Rühl, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chad, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ruhl in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Rühl in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ruehl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #634 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rühl | 114 |
| US United States | — | 4,462as Ruhl | 1 in 75K | 4.5K | Ruhl | 301 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,200as Ruhl | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 43 | Ruhl | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Ruhl | 64 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 249as Ruhl | 1 in 69K | 249 | Ruhl | 22 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Ruehl | 8 |
| TD Chad | #125 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 718K | — | Ruehl | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Peter Ruehlb. 1947USAmerican-born Australian newspaper columnist
- Mercedes Ruehlb. 1948USAmerican actress
- Wolfgang Ruehlb. 1958DEGerman author
- Franklin RuehlUSAmerican actor
- Don RuehlUSbasketball player
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 947 | #27,027 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 917 | #25,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 910 | #26,747 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 9 | #154,387 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Ruehl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Rühl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ruehl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,462 people named Ruhl in 2010, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruehl compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ruehl is the 634th most common surname of 765,306 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/ruehlThe 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, “Ruehl” — the 634th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.