Rutka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɹutkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rutka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 9.6K
- FIFinland1 in 192K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,515 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Rutka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,515 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Rutka | 58 |
| US United States | 292 | 1 in 1.1M | 303 | Rutka | 33 |
| LV Latvia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Rutka | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 740K | 6 | Rutka | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 631K | — | Rutka | 4 |
| FI Finland | 29 | 1 in 192K | 29 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 22 | 1 in 486K | 22 | Rutka | 6 |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | — |
2,515 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rutka 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 Latvian, genitive singular of rutks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, plentiful
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Krievijas Ņižņijnovgorodas apgabalā un Mari El Republikā, Volgas kreisā krasta pieteka, ietek Čeboksaru ūdenskrātuvē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Rutki - pērkoņu suga ("Raphanus sativus")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Teofil Rutkab. 1622UAPolish philosopher
- Dorothy Rutkab. 1907USAmerican painter, portraitist, and etcher, 1907-1985
- James Rutkab. 1956CACanadian neurosurgeon
- Sławomir Rutkab. 1975PLPolish footballer (1975-2009)
- Marek Rutkab. 1975PLPolish politician
- Patrick Rutkab. 1977ATaccordionist
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,377 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,353 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 303 | #61,855 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 292 | #67,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 280 | #74,428 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 29 | #39,188 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #49,875 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 22 | #15,002 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #54,011 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Rutka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹutkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rutka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Rutka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rutka.
- How common is the name Rutka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,515 people named Rutka in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rutka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rutkaThe 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, “Rutka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.