Ruey
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹui/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 984Kas Ruy(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 67K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 213K
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 Ruey 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
8,093 named Ruy, 2022
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ruy in BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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)
Ruey 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.
8,093 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Hai Ruib. 1514CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (1514-1587)
- Li Ruib. 1768CNnot in their usual nameChinese mathematician (1768-1817)
- Li Ruib. 1917CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (1917–2019)
- Huang Ruib. 1952CNnot in their usual nameartist
- Cheng Ruib. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
- Zhang Ruib. 1979CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong table tennis player
- Liu Ruib. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese curler and curling coach
- Sun Ruib. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese ice hockey player and coach
- Ray Chenb. 1989AUnot in their usual nameTaiwanese-Australian violinist
- Liang Ruib. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese racewalker
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- How do you pronounce Ruey?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹui/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ruey a male or female name?
- Ruey is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ruey have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Ruy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ruey?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 8,093 people named Ruy in 2022, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ruey?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rueyThe 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, “Ruey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.