Rudell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Rudell

The Social Security Administration has registered 394 babies named Rudell between 1915 and 1992, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rudell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Rudell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 378 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rudell performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Rudell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rudell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rudell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 394 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.