Ruela
surname · Latin script
Meaning: alley (narrow street)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁwɛlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 470Kas Rula(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- SYSyria≈1 in 9.5Kas Rula
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 Ruela 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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 named Rula, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rula in US United States, DE Germany, SY Syria and 3 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)
alley (narrow street)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Rula | 7 |
| US United States | 708as Rula | 1 in 470K | 705 | Rula | 163 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Rula | 6 |
| IL Israel | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Rula | 14 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 613K | — | Rula | 41 |
| SE Sweden | 88as Rula | 1 in 116K | 88 | — | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 166K | 5 | Rula | 10 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 237 | #85,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 235 | #80,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 218 | #80,812 |
| 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
- What does the name Ruela mean, and where does it come from?
- alley (narrow street) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ruela?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁwɛlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Ruela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Rula in Syria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ruela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ruela is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though Syria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ruela?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 2 people named Ruela in 2026, about 1 in 175 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/ruelaThe 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, “Ruela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.