Ruppe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹəp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruppe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 252K(measured from records)
- LSLesotho≈1 in 50K
- FIFinland≈1 in 103K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
1,320 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Lesotho, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Ruppe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,320 | 1 in 252K | 1.3K | Ruppe | 191 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Ruppe | 61 |
| FR France | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 328K | 39 | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Ruppe | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 580K | — | Ruppe | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Ruppe | 1 |
| LS Lesotho | #389 | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Ruppe | 1 |
1,320 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Ruppe 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 Italian, third-person singular past historic of rompere
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)
- Christian Friedrich Ruppeb. 1753NLDutch musician and composer from German origin
- Hugo Ruppeb. 1879DEGerman engineer
- Charles Ruppeb. 1890FRFrench physician (1890-1940)
- Philip Ruppeb. 1926USAmerican politician (1926–2026)
- Harry O. Ruppeb. 1929DEGerman physicist and author (1929–2016)
- Loret Miller Ruppeb. 1936USAmerican diplomat (1936-1996)
- Hans Georg Ruppeb. 1942ATAustrian jurist and judge
- Stefan Ruppeb. 1981DEGerman actor
- Etienne Rupperesearcher
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #18,892 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,526 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 22 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ruppe?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹəp/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ruppe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Ruppe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruppe.
- How common is the name Ruppe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,320 people named Ruppe in 2010, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruppe compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Ruppe is the 389th most common surname of 5,753 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruppeThe 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, “Ruppe” — the 389th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.