Ruffieux
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ʁy.fjø/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Ruffieux is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 260Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,107 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ruffieux 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 | #660 | 1,107 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | Ruffieux | 52 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 255K | 17 | Ruffieux | 118 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Ruffieux | 21 |
| US United States | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 21M | listed | Ruffieux | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 7 | Ruffieux | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 9.1M | — | Ruffieux | 5 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | — | Ruffieux | 4 |
1,107 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ruffieux 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, Ruffieux (a village in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)
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)- Arnold Ruffieuxb. 1843CHSwiss higher servant (1843-1872)
- Louis Ruffieuxb. 1848CHSwiss archiviste
- Cyprien Ruffieuxb. 1859CHSwiss arpetan author (1859-1940)
- Laurent Ruffieuxb. 1908CHSwiss politician (1908-1996)
- André Ruffieuxb. 1912CHSwiss politician (1912-2009)
- Nicolas Ruffieuxb. 1919CHSwiss musician and choir director (1919-1997)
- Laura Rüffieuxb. 1995DEGerman handball player
- Pascal Ruffieuxb. 2000researcher
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,058 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ruffieux?
- In French /ʁy.fjø/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Ruffieux have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ruffieux, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruffieux.
- Where is Ruffieux most common?
- Ruffieux is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ruffieux?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,107 people named Ruffieux in 2024, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruffieux compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Ruffieux is the 660th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ruffieux?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruffieuxThe 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, “Ruffieux” — the 660th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.