Rudie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rudie has been given to 215 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% boys, 33% girls all-time.
Babies named Rudie, 1992
1 in 768,000
Rudie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Rudie over time
In 2024, Rudie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Rudie?
Rudie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rudie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rudie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rudies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rudie was born before 1939 — so the typical Rudie is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 27.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 61
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (39).
Is Rudie 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1947 (9)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.6% average annual change
Spellings of Rudie
Rudie is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 54.7% against Rudie's 0.04%.
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.
Rudie around the world
Where Rudie 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.
- England & Wales2003–2025#1,466in 2025
- Scotland2022–2025#762in 2025
- South Australia1957–1957#427in 1957
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rudie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rudie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rudie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.