Ruer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ruer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to kick with its hind legs.
- BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 14Mas Rueer
- CACanada≈1 in 23Mas Rueer
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 Ruer 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
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)
≈6 named Rueer, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
to kick with its hind legs
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruer 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 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Ruer | 13 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 23M | — | Ruer | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | Ruer | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Ruer | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Ruer | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Ruer | 2 |
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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ruer 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of rue
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, personne qui gigote
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Julius Wilhelm Ruerb. 1784DEGerman psychiatrist
- Wilhelm Ruerb. 1848DEGerman lawyer and poet (1848-1932)
- Rudolf Ruerb. 1865DEGerman chemist (1865-1938)
- Otto Ruerb. 1879DEpolitician (1879-1933)
- Christophe Ruerb. 1965FRmodern pentathlete
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Ruer mean, and where does it come from?
- to kick with its hind legs Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ruer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6 people named Rueer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ruer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ruer is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ruer?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Ruer in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ruer?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruerThe 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, “Ruer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.