ROUf
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The number four
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), 2018
/rɔuf/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from রউফ · uncertain
ROUf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 510K
- FRFrance≈1 in 620K
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 ROUf itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈76,000 named Rauf, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rauf in PK Pakistan, NG Nigeria, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more.
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)The number four.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)ROUf 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #96 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 1 | Rauf | 114 |
| BD Bangladesh | #172 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | ROUf | 72 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Rauf | 42 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #494 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Rauf | 53 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #306 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rauf | 60 |
| NO Norway | — | 222as Rauf | 1 in 25K | 222 | Rauf | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20 | 1 in 510K | 214 | — | 14 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)ROUf is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, de rufus, roux. Fêtes : 4 (17) janvier, 8 (21) avril, 29 avril (12 maï), 6 (19) juillet, 28 août (10 septembre). Rufus est son équivalent français. Fête : 12 novembre.
as a nameRussian Names
In Russian, de rwh, comblé de bien, ou re'ut, amie. Fête : dimanche avant Noël. Ruth est son équivalent français. Fête : 3 juillet.
as a nameRussian Names
In French, deckhouse, coachroof, cuddy
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)- Syed Fazle RoufSEresearcher
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #25,467 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #907 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 ROUf mean, and where does it come from?
- The number four. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce ROUf?
- It depends on the language: in Bangla /rɔuf/; in Indonesian /rˈouf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does ROUf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 thousand people named Rauf in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name ROUf?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named ROUf, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
- How common is ROUf compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, ROUf is the 96th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about ROUf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roufThe 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, “ROUf” — the 96th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.