Rung

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Rung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In English, recorded as A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 464K(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 64K
  • SESweden1 in 68K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,600 people, est.

Sources
196 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 396.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Rung is read(measured from records)

Rung is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English61%

    A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German11%

    Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 396.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rung 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.

Where Rung is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈3,600 est.≈1 in 64K—Rung6
DE Germany≈920 est.≈1 in 87Klisted—1
US United States7171 in 464K733Rung196
IN India≈360 est.≈1 in 3.7M120Rung11
IT Italy≈230 est.≈1 in 276K—Rung1
SE Sweden1511 in 68K151Rung17
FI Finland541 in 103K54——
NO Norway481 in 114K48—9

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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; the dfa-band-5 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rung is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ŕung, Rừng

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rưng, Rụng, Rừng, Ruņg

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Rừng

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Rừng

  • a separate surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, China

    Also written Rừng, Rùng, Rụng, Rúng, Rųnğ

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rung is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, subst. 1. Runc /u, loan (Mot) ; -escu (Mus 11). 2. Runcan, Ioan act. 3. Runcenescul, R. (16 B II 18) < *Runceni -I- suf. -escu In loc de -eanu spre a evita repetitia.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In Vietnamese, to put in motion; to shake; to agitate; to ring (bell)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In aot, logboat, dugout canoe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kha, to enter

    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)

1700180019002000Fredrik Rung, b. 1758Henrik Rung, b. 1807Georg Rung, b. 1845Frederik Rung, b. 1854Otto Rung, b. 1874George Rung, b. 1916Marion Rung, b. 1945Thomas Rung, b. 1961Maja Rung, b. 1987

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Rung
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020733#33,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000718#30,645
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010717#32,169
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—151#5,201
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—120#453
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—54#21,328
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—48#26,538
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Rung come from?
Occupational or nickname surname from the Rung(e)/Rong(e) group; bearer count 396. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
What does the name Rung mean?
In English, A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
What are other forms of the name Rung?
In the etymology graph, Runge is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Rung have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Rung in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rung.
How common is the name Rung?
In the United States, the national register counted 717 people named Rung in 2010, about 1 in 464 thousand residents.

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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, “Rung”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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