Ruwen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁuːvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruwen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 233K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 348K
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 358K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 233K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ru-Wen in TW Taiwan.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruwen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Ruwen | 16 |
| DE Germany | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 233K | listed | Ruwen | 60 |
| PH Philippines | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Ruwen | 7 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 358K | — | Ru-Wen | 5 |
| PL Poland | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Ruwen | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Ruwen | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 21 | Ruwen | 6 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ruwen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, 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 rewen (“to regret”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, to roughen
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)
- Ruwen Ogienb. 1947FRFrench philosopher (1947–2017)
- Ruwen Fallerb. 1980DEGerman sprinter
- Ruwen Filusb. 1988DEGerman table tennis player
- Ruwen Straubb. 1993DEGerman swimmer
- Ruwen Werthmüllerb. 2001DESwiss association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9 | #19,086 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ruwen?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁuːvən/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Ruwen a male or female name?
- Ruwen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ruwen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Ruwen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruwen.
- How common is the name Ruwen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Ruwen, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ruwen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruwenThe 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, “Ruwen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.