# Ruse (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/ruse/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 859 |
| US rank (2010) | 27,918 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 359,424 people |
| Change since 2000 | -22.0% (1,101 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɹuːz/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Rouse, Rowse. * As a German surname, variant of Reuss, Reusse. * As a Czech surname, Americanized from Rus (“Russian”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Ruse in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Ruse in the United Kingdom.

## People named Ruse

- Michael Ruse, British-Canadian science philosopher (1940–2024)

## Similar surnames

Rose, Russo, Rouse, Russ, Rousseau, Ruis, Rousey, Rus, Rush, Rusk, Rusch, Ruesch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.