Ruel

Where Ruel comes from

Ruel hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #650
    10 babies named Ruel — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2000
    Ruel Sotiriou born
    English footballer
  5. 2002
    Ruel born
    British-born Australian singer-songwriter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ruel · British-born Australian singer-songwriter, born 2002
  • Ruel Sotiriou · English footballer, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.