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    The surname Ruel

    A surname, carried by 1,387 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R400

    Ruel: #19,480 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ruel #19,480, 1,387 people Ruel: #19,480 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ruel #19,480, 1,387 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ruel is more common than 88% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,387 people named Ruel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,600 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,338.

    #19,480
    rank among US surnames
    1,387
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.7%
    change since 2000 (was #18,883)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #19,480Vanvoorhis1,387222,600
    #19,489Pulsifer1,386222,760

    Who is named Ruel

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    86% of people named Ruel identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Ruel

    Ruel has the Soundex code R400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Ruel?
    1,387 people in the United States had the surname Ruel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,600 Americans. It ranked 19,480th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ruel?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Ruel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Ruel getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,338 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,387 in 2010, up 3.7%.