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The RUEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,338 18883 0 5
United States (1880 census) 109 29752 0 2
Change since 1880 +1229 +10869 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 3 202778 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for RUEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 194 4192 0.003 31
New Hampshire 124 1528 0.010 100
Maine 122 1807 0.010 96
Florida 115 14553 0.001 7
Connecticut 90 4858 0.003 26
Top States for RUEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 124 1528 0.010 100
Delaware 76 1784 0.010 97
Maine 122 1807 0.010 96
Vermont 25 3709 0.004 41
Massachusetts 194 4192 0.003 31

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

Classification and Origin of RUEL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the RUEL surname.

Ethnic distribution of RUEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 86 6.43
Asian/Pacific 15 1.12
Mixed Race 13 0.97
White (Caucasian) 1,209 90.36
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

RUEL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of RUEL in historical publications

RUEL. See Rule.

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 RUEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUEL.

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 RUEL

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