Rugas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present indicative of rugar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rugas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 156K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 112K
- SESweden1 in 928K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 112K (inferred from the name graph)
≈700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present indicative of rugar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rugas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Rugas | 31 |
| NO Norway | 49 | 1 in 112K | 49 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 27M | — | Rugas | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Rugas | 6 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Rugas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, first-person singular past of beir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative plural of rūga
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rugas mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present indicative of rugar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rugas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 701 people named Rugas in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rugas.
- Where is Rugas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rugas is densest in Norway — about 1 in 112 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rugas?
- In Norway, the national register counted 49 people named Rugas, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rugasThe 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, “Rugas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.