Ruddy
#8,778 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ruddy has been given to 541 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #8,778 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Ruddy, 2025
1 in 368,000
Ruddy over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ruddy?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,778
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ruddy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruddy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ruddys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruddy was born before 1990 — so the typical Ruddy is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 25.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 465
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (138).
Is Ruddy rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,959
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 40.9%
- Peak was 1992 (22)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ruddy
Ruddy is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 63.7% against Ruddy's 0.10%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ruddy is used
Across 1910–2025, Ruddy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 668,620 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ruddy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ruddy around the world
Where Ruddy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1948–2024#6,317in 2024
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Ruddy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ruddy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ruddy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.