Rudie
Rudie was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 215 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rudie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rudie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,540, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1986, the peak
Rudie peaked in 1986, when 10 babies were given it (0 boys, #0 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,201 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,994 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,630 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,757 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,540 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,718 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,583 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,034 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,786 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,003 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | #10,342 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,368 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 5 | #4,338 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,509 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,964 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 6 | #3,921 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,818 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,410 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,159 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 9 | #2,741 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 9 | #2,835 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,892 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #4,066 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,609 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,577 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 7 | #3,317 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,233 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,459 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,755 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,662 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,091 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,695 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 5 | #4,472 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,670 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,748 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rudie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 215 Americans recorded as Rudie, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rudie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rudie, and how old are they?
An estimated 119 Americans named Rudie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 34 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 277 people named Rudie (91 women and girls, 186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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 Rudie?
Rudie is a less common spelling of Rudy: SSA has recorded 215 Rudie and 51,402 Rudy since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 53,404 babies since 1880, Rudie is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 414 babies recorded by SSA was a Rudie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Rudie and names like it
- Compare Rudie and RudyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRudie peaked in 1986.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Rudie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rudie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.