Rutten
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from a personal name with weak genitive -en; illustrates weak-genitive patronym formation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹətən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rutten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burkina Faso than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 5K
- DEGermany≈1 in 36K
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.
- Burkina Faso (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rütten 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)
Patronymic from a personal name with weak genitive -en; illustrates weak-genitive patronym formation.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rutten 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF Burkina Faso | #423 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Rutten | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | #129 | 7,459 | 1 in 2.3K | 7.5K | Rutten | 110 |
| BE Belgium | #326 | 2,332 | 1 in 5K | 2.3K | Rutten | 78 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Rütten | 72 |
| US United States | — | 872 | 1 in 381K | 950 | Rutten | 183 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Rutten | 33 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Martin-Hubert Ruttenb. 1841BEBelgian theologian and bishop (1841-1927)
- Louis Ruttenb. 1884NLDutch geologist (1884–1946)
- Gerard Ruttenb. 1902NLDutch film director (1902–1982)
- Joseph Ruttenb. 1931NLactor
- Fred Ruttenb. 1962NLDutch footballer and manager
- Renaud Ruttenb. 1963BEBelgian actor
- Bas Ruttenb. 1965NLDutch-American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, professional wrestler and kickboxer
- Gwendolyn Ruttenb. 1975BEFlemish politician
- Ellen Ruttenb. 1975NLDutch university teacher
- Moreno Ruttenb. 1993NLDutch footballer
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7.5K | #89 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.3K | #396 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.2K | #408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 950 | #26,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 899 | #25,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 872 | #27,604 |
| 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 Rutten mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic from a personal name with weak genitive -en; illustrates weak-genitive patronym formation. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Rutten?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹətən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rutten have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Rutten in Burkina Faso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rutten.
- Where is Rutten most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rutten is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though Burkina Faso holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rutten?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7,459 people named Rutten in 2007, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Rutten compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Rutten is the 423rd most common surname of 4,677 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruttenThe 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, “Rutten” — the 423rd most common surname in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.