Rusting

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rusting is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: present participle and gerund of rust.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 432K(measured from records)
  • KEKenya≈1 in 584K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 3.7M

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.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

≈92 people, est.

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 432K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rüsting in DE Germany.

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(measured from records)

present participle and gerund of rust

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rusting 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 Rusting is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya≈92 est.≈1 in 584K—Rusting1
US United States≈43 est.≈1 in 7.8M—Rusting50
NL Netherlands401 in 432K40Rusting5
DE Germany≈22 est.≈1 in 3.7M—Rüsting6
CA Canada≈7 est.≈1 in 5.7M—Rusting3

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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Rusting is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rüsting

15 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Rusting
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200740#35,375

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

What does the name Rusting mean, and where does it come from?
present participle and gerund of rust Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Rusting have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 92 people named Rusting in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rusting.
Where is Rusting most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rusting is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 432 thousand people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rusting?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 40 people named Rusting in 2007, about 1 in 432 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rusting

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Rusting”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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