Ruel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ruel is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: de (Le) Ruel, nom de plusieurs localités en France.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.4K◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 51K
  • USUnited States1 in 193K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.9K ●

across 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
133 ●

103K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 9.3K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

RuelLatin · Spanish●78K records
רואלHebrew · Hebrew●126 records

Locally spelled רואל in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in French

de (Le) Ruel, nom de plusieurs localités en France.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ruel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#167115,70994K rec.—90KRuel92
ID Indonesia—1,7761.8K rec.——Ruel16
US United States—1,7243.9K rec.1 in 193K1.7KRuel133
PE Peru—1,167966 rec.——Ruel28
TH Thailand—504278 rec.——Ruel14
SA Saudi Arabia—31460 rec.——Ruel17
CA Canada—276369 rec.—1Ruel30
GB United Kingdom—206165 rec.——Ruel30
BR Brazil—202187 rec.—398Ruel30
AR Argentina—171424 rec.—56Ruel21
MX Mexico—133150 rec.——Ruel19
QA Qatar#97112274 rec.——Ruel17

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish78K48%
  • Portuguese37K23%
  • English29K18%
  • Indonesian4.4K3%
  • Swahili2.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish77,88548%
Portuguese37,32423%
English28,51418%
Indonesian4,4413%
Swahili2,5712%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ruel is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name46K records spelled Ruel14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ruël, Rüel, Ru-El, Rueel, Rüël

  • French given name20K records spelled Ruel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ruêl, Ruél, Rue͏̈l, Ruël

  • Hindi given name1.5K records spelled Ruel25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, Bangladesh, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Royel, Ruyel, রয়েল, রুয়েল, Royle

  • a separate given name926 records spelled Ruel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Rue͏̈l, Ruël

  • Polish given name299 records spelled Ruel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Philippines

    Also written Ruël, Rüel, Ruél

  • Russian given name293 records spelled Ruel9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Belgium, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ruelle, Reuel, Руэл, Рюэль

  • Italian given name230 records spelled Ruel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Also written Ruél

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ruel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Hebrew; friend of God

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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.

Over time●

020406019001950200049 · 1915

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Ruel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18825
18875
18915
18927
189310
18947
18976
18987
18995
19007
19016
190311
19057
19069
19077
19086
19099
19108
19116
191221
191324
191428
191549
191632
191729
191829
191934
192030
192138
192238
192338
192447
192546
192633
192742
192828
192932
193031
193124
193226
193337
193426
193515
193630
193720
193821
193930
194019
194117
194222
194314
194419
194517
194625
194717
194815
194915
195023
195116
195211
195315
195414
195516
195616
195716
195813
195915
196017
196110
19629
19638
196411
19658
196612
196715
196816
19699
197013
197115
19729
19739
197410
19757
197612
197710
19786
19798
19809
19816
19826
19838
19846
19857
198611
19878
19886
198912
199014
199110
199210
199313
19948
19959
19976
199810
19996
20006
20018
20029
20038
200412
20058
20095
201011
20119
20127
20139
201413
20168
20177
201811
20198
20205
20217
202210
202310
202411
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 128 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Ruel C. Walker, b. 1910Ruel Tyson, b. 1930Ruel Sotiriou, b. 2000Ruel, b. 2002
  • Ruel C. Walkerb. 1910American judge
  • Ruel Tysonb. 1930USAmerican professor of religious studies and founder of the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities
  • Ruel Sotirioub. 2000GBEnglish footballer (born 2000)
  • Ruelb. 2002AUBritish-born Australian singer-songwriter
  • Ruel S. BayaniPHFilipino director, writer, producer, editor
  • Ruel HamiltonAmerican author, businessman and political activist
  • Ruel JohnsonGYGuyanese writer

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●

Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Ruel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202290K#95
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,334
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#18,883
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#21,898
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961533—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951485—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941451—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971410—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991403—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981403—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—398#20,823

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 193 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ruel?
We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Ruel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Ruel have the most bearers?
Ruel is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled ruel.
How common is Ruel compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Ruel is the 167th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
Is Ruel a male or female name?
Ruel 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.
What does the name Ruel mean?
Recorded meaning: de (Le) Ruel, nom de plusieurs localités en France.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ruel” — the 167th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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