Rugel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ruɣel/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rugel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country: 6,354 people, counted by INEC in 2024.
- ECEcuador1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 14K
- SISlovenia1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
6,354 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Rugel
- Spanish:/ruɣel/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Rugel is found
(measured from records)Rugel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #520 | 6,354 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.4K | Rugel | 36 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Rugel | 42 |
| US United States | — | 359 | 1 in 927K | 380 | Rugel | 124 |
| ES Spain | — | 190 | 1 in 263K | 190 | Rugel | 28 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Rugel | 35 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 421K | — | Rugel | 9 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 12 | 1 in 175K | 12 | — | 2 |
6,354 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Leonardo Rugelb. 2001PEPeruvian association football player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rugel?
- In Spanish /ruɣel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Rugel?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Rugel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rugel. After it come Peru, United States, Spain and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rugel most common?
- Rugel is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rugel?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 6,354 people named Rugel in 2024, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Rugel compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Rugel is the 520th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rugel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rugelThe 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, “Rugel” — ranked 634th in Ecuador (INEC, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.