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The RUE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,905 6395 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 1,574 3680 0.003 31
Change since 1880 +3331 -2715 -0.001 -13
Other Countries
Australia 93 15190 0.001 6
United Kingdom 132 21021 0 3
Top States for RUE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 396 7257 0.001 12
Ohio 346 4217 0.003 30
Minnesota 293 2196 0.006 60
Texas 279 7133 0.001 13
Florida 275 7383 0.002 17
Top States for RUE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 293 2196 0.006 60
New Mexico 102 1743 0.006 56
North Dakota 36 3223 0.006 56
Alaska 33 2911 0.005 53
Oregon 168 2740 0.005 49

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RUE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RUE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RUE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RUE by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RUE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RUE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RUE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RUE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 702 14.31
White (Hispanic) 215 4.38
Asian/Pacific 130 2.65
Mixed Race 59 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 30 0.61
White (Caucasian) 3,769 76.84

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RUE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RUE in historical publications

(origin: Local) From Reaux, in Hainault, Netherlands. Fr., Rue, a street.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


RUE. . The French De la Rue, deprived of its prefix. 2. Eewe, a parish in Devonshire.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to RUE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RUE

The following words are slight variants of RUE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.