Ruther
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ruther is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Ruther or Rüther.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 569K
- SESweden1 in 352K
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 Ruther 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)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ruether in UY Uruguay, NG Nigeria, ML Mali and 1 more and Rüther 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)
Borrowed from German Ruther or Rüther.
Sources 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruther 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 | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Rüther | 72 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Ruether | 1 |
| ML Mali | #434 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Ruether | 1 |
| US United States | — | 585 | 1 in 569K | 749 | Ruther | 183 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 752K | — | Ruether | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Ruether | 1 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ruther 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 enm, alternative form of rother (“bovine”)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 749 | #29,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 711 | #34,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 585 | #37,955 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,479 |
| 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
- What does the name Ruther mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Ruther or Rüther. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Ruther have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Ruther in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rüther.
- How common is the name Ruther?
- In the United States, the national register counted 585 people named Ruther in 2010, about 1 in 569 thousand residents.
- How common is Ruther compared with other names?
- In Mali, Ruther is the 434th most common surname of 7,873 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/rutherThe 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, “Ruther” — the 434th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.