The Ruelas surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,505 people carried this name — #3,140 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 25,600 people counted. That is up 43% from 8,033 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Ruelas surname

From Galician/Portuguese Ruelas, usually via Spanish as it is very prevalent in Mexico, while rare in Brazil and apparently extinct in Portugal.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ruelas» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 57 people named Ruelas live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 34
City of Buenos Aires 23

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Ruelas in American newspapers,
1918–1930.

Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Ruelas
Evening Star 1930-11-02
Newspaper page from La Prensa carrying the name Ruelas
La Prensa 1918-06-20

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

Who carried it

People named Ruelas,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Julio Ruelas
    Julio Ruelas 1870–1907 · artist

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Ruelas,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States148 records

148 records of the Ruelas name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 94
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 30
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 23
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Pedro H. Ruelas

    Born 1910 in Texas. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Bliss El Paso; yardman from El Paso County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1990, buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Mateo Ruelas

    Born 1949; from Alice, Texas. U.S. Army, indirect fire infantryman; killed in action 1970 in Cambodia.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Anthony Manuel Ruelas

    U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1950, died 1994; buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 148 records for Ruelas in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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