Ruf (family name)
Ruf is a family name that occurs mainly in German-speaking countries. He rarely appears as a male first name .
origin
Call is as Patronym on the truncated form reputation of the male first name Rudolf recycled.
Other authors indicate other possible origins. Erwin Manuel Dreifuss traces the name back to Rufus . Lars Menk attributes it to Ruben . Menk as well as Eva and Heinrich Guggenheimer also trace it back as a professional name to the Hebrew word 'רופא' = 'rofe' = 'doctor, healer'.
Further derivations such as the name Rudfried or the verb call are not proven.
distribution
The name is particularly common in southern Germany. There are around 5,000 name bearers, around half of them in Baden-Württemberg and a quarter in Bavaria (as of 2018). The name ranks 517th in the list of the most common names in Germany. It occurs about 2,000 times in the United States, about 600 times in Switzerland, and about 200 each in Austria and France.
variants
Variants are Ruef , Ruof , Ruff , Rueff and Ruoff .
Name bearer
A.
- Alfons Ruf (1887–1931), Swiss entrepreneur
- Anton Ruf (1840–1929), Austrian politician
- August Ruf (1869–1944), German pastor
B.
- Beatrix Ruf (* 1960), German museum director and author
- Bernd Ruf (pedagogue) (* 1956), German emergency pedagogue
- Bernd Ruf (conductor) (* 1964), German conductor and clarinetist
- Bernhard Ruf (* 1952), Swiss mathematician and university professor
C.
- Camille Ruf (1872–1939), Swiss photographer
- Carl Ruf , German photographer
- Conrad Ruf (1840–1922), German photographer
D.
- Darin Ruf (* 1986), American baseball player
E.
- Éric Ruf (* 1969), French actor, set designer and director
F.
- Franz Ruf (architect) (1909–1997), German architect
- Franz Ruf (artist) (* 1949), German artist
- Franz Ruf (police officer) (* 1968), Austrian police officer
- Friedhelm Ruf (* 1955), German journalist and author
- Friedrich Ruf ( Friedrich Martin Ruf ; 1926 / 1927–2019), German entrepreneur
- Fritz Ruf (* 1927), German food chemist and manager
G
- Gerhard Ruf (actually Helmut Eugen Joseph Ruf ; 1927–2008), German religious
H
- Hans Ruf (1910–1983), German homeland researcher, dialect poet and museum founder
- Heinrich Ruf (1903–1989), German engineer
- Hermann Ruf (1882–1970), German jewelry designer, manufacturer and painter
- Hugo Ruf (1925–1999), German harpsichordist and university professor
J
- Jakob Ruf (1505–1558), Swiss surgeon and writer
- Johann Ruf (around 1713–1788), German brewer and politician
- Josef Ruf (1920–2009), German painter
- Joseph Ruf (1905–1940), German conscientious objector
K
- Karl Ruf († 2002), Swiss zoo keeper and conservationist
- Kathrin Eberl-Ruf (* 1962), German musicologist and university professor
L.
- Ludwig Ruf , German soccer player
M.
- Markus Ruf (* 1959), Swiss lawyer and politician
- Martin Ruf (* 1960), German writer and translator
- Max Ruf (* 1982), German artist
N
- Niels Ruf (* 1973), German television presenter and actor
- Norbert Ruf (1933–2012), German clergyman and canon lawyer
P
- Paul Ruf (1890–1964), German Germanist and librarian
- Peter Ruf (* 1950), German local researcher and museum director
R.
- Rudolf Ruf (actor) (1916–2008), Swiss actor
- Rudolf Ruf (politician) (1922–2012), German politician (CDU)
S.
- Sebastian Ruf (1802–1877), Austrian priest, psychologist and local historian
- Sep Ruf (1908–1982), German architect
- Sonja Ruf (* 1967), German writer
T
- Theodor Anton Ruf (1865–1943), Austrian architect and builder
- Thomas Ruf (1911–1996), German politician (CDU)
U
- Ulrich Ruf (* 1955), German football official
- Urs Ruf (* 1945), Swiss educator, educational scientist and university professor
W.
- Walter Ruf (1903–2002), Swiss company founder
- Werner Ruf (* 1937), German political scientist and university professor
- Werner Klaus Ruf (* 1937), German sociologist and political scientist
- Wilhelm Ruf (1909– ??), German resistance fighter
- Wolfgang Ruf (musicologist) (* 1941), German musicologist and university professor
- Wolfgang Schebesch-Ruf (* around 1984), Austrian sports scientist, sports educator and university professor
- Wolfgang J. Ruf (* 1943), German publicist
- Wolfram Ruf (* 1958), German physician
Web links
- Reputation in the digital dictionary of surnames in Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reputation in the digital dictionary of surnames in Germany
- ↑ Erwin Manuel Dreifuss: The family names of the Jews with special consideration of the conditions in Baden at the beginning of the 19th century. Kaufmann, Frankfurt am Main 1927, DNB 572912528 , p. 142.
- ^ A b Lars Menk: A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surname. Avotaynu, Bergenfield 2005, ISBN 1-88622-320-3 , p. 636.
- ^ Eva H. Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. Guggenheimer: Etymological Lexicon of Jewish Family Names. Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 978-3-598-11260-7 , p. 382.
- ↑ Call on legacy.stoepel.net
- ↑ Call on namespedia.com