Ruland
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ruland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 152K
- CACanada≈1 in 210Kfew records
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 Ruland 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ruland 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Ruland | 97 |
| US United States | 1,214 | 1 in 274K | 1.4K | Ruland | 231 |
| GH Ghana | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Ruland | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 372K | 7 | Ruland | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Ruland | 20 |
| IE Ireland | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Ruland | 1 |
| NO Norway | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | Ruland | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Martin Rulandb. 1532DEGerman pedagogue and writer (1532-1611)
- Martin Rulandb. 1569DEGerman physician and alchemist (1569-1611)
- Carl Rulandb. 1834DEGerman art historian and literary historian (1834-1907)
- Fritz Rulandb. 1914DEcyclist
- Bernd Rulandb. 1914DEGerman journalist (1914-1976)
- Hans Rulandb. 1948DEGerman non-fiction writer (1948-2006)
- Jeff Rulandb. 1958USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Dan Rulandb. 1960USAmerican basketball player (born 1960)
- Tina Rulandb. 1966DEGerman actress
- Marc Rulandb. 1981DEGerman politician
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,509 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #32,143 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Ruland have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Ruland in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruland.
- How common is the name Ruland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,214 people named Ruland in 2010, about 1 in 274 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ruland?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rulandThe 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, “Ruland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.