Ruddy
Ruddy was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,778 among boys’ names; 541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ruddy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ruddy?
#8,778 among boys’ names, 2025
Ruddy entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,778 in 2025.
27 babies in 1992, the peak
Ruddy peaked in 1992, when 27 babies were given it (22 boys, #3,086 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,778 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 6 | #12,037 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,737 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,550 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,808 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,981 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,974 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,905 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,742 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,586 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | #7,321 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,540 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,759 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,628 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,432 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,032 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,993 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,980 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,396 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,508 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,347 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,057 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,736 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,938 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,086 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,598 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,564 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,414 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,860 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,920 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,401 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,994 | 6.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,123 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,249 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,099 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,089 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #5,016 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,313 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,857 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,872 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,817 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,537 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,963 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,555 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,611 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,817 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,102 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,176 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,633 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,740 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,257 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,604 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,834 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,704 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,605 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,962 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,170 | 5.1 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,469 | 5.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,125 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,690 | 5.8 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,128 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ruddy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ruddy has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ruddy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ruddy, and how old are they?
An estimated 457 Americans named Ruddy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,176 people named Ruddy (86 women and girls, 1,090 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Ruddy?
Ruddy is a less common spelling of Rudy: SSA has recorded 541 Ruddy and 51,402 Rudy since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 53,404 babies since 1880, Ruddy is the third most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 414 babies (2.2%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ruddy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ruddy and names like it
- Compare Ruddy and RudyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRuddy peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ruddy since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Ruddy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ruddy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.