Ruelle
loc · Latin script
Meaning: The space between the bed and the wall
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ruelle is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 9.1K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 37K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The space between the bed and the wall.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruelle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 453 | Ruelle | 235 |
| BE Belgium | 1,289 | 1 in 9.1K | 1.3K | — | 59 |
| US United States | 559 | 1 in 595K | 609 | — | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 580K | 14 | — | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 626K | 1 | — | 10 |
| EE Estonia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Ruelle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, lane/laneway, alley/alleyway
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)
- Albert Ruelleb. 1754FRFrench politician (1754-1805)
- Charles-Émile Ruelleb. 1833FRFrench classical philologist and musicologist (1833-1912)
- Jules Ruelleb. 1834FRFrench poet, translator, author, librettist, lyricist, composer, editor, and arranger
- Pierre Ruelleb. 1911BEBelgian romanist (1911-1993)
- Fernand Ruelleb. 1921BEBelgian conductor
- Claude Ruelleb. 1923BEBelgian diplomat
- David Ruelleb. 1935BEBelgian-French mathematical physicist
- Benoît Ruelleb. 1949FRFrench journalist and teacher
- Dominique Ruelleb. 1958FRFrench politician
- Joe Ruelleb. 1978CACanadian blogger
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.3K | #956 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.2K | #1,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 609 | #39,043 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 592 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 580 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 559 | #39,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 537 | #38,706 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 518 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 496 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 453 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 428 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 425 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ruelle mean, and where does it come from?
- The space between the bed and the wall. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ruelle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Ruelle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruelle.
- Where is Ruelle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ruelle is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 9.1 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ruelle?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,289 people named Ruelle in 2008, about 1 in 9.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruelleThe 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, “Ruelle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.