Rudra
Rudra was given to 152 boys in 2025, #1,289 among boys’ names; 1,795 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Rudra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rudra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rudra?
#1,289 among boys’ names, 2025
Rudra rose from #1,996 in 2015 to #1,289 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 38.1 to 89.0 per million.
152 babies in 2025, the peak
Rudra peaked in 2025, when 152 boys were given it, #1,289 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 144 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 152 | #1,289 | 89.0 |
| 2024 | 144 | #1,337 | 83.6 |
| 2023 | 134 | #1,388 | 78.3 |
| 2022 | 99 | #1,719 | 56.7 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,686 | 56.0 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,644 | 56.8 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,612 | 57.4 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,552 | 60.0 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,601 | 54.6 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,782 | 45.3 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #1,996 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,901 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,701 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,222 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 82 | #1,777 | 43.2 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,997 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,791 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,338 | 27.4 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,408 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,727 | 20.9 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,031 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,733 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,603 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,510 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,153 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,278 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rudra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,795 Americans recorded as Rudra, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 152 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rudra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rudra, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,795 Americans ever recorded as Rudra. The median Rudra alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,386 people named Rudra (87 women and girls, 1,299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,067 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 451 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Rudra born?
The states with the most babies named Rudra are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #900 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,162 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #570 | 3.8× |
| Washington | 13 | #563 | 0.7× |
| New York | 9 | #1,276 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 8 | #998 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,594 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,328 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,220 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 5 | #899 | 0.5× |
Where Rudra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rudra is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2000 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rudra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rudra
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 Rudra and names like it
- Compare Rudra and RoninBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRudra peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rudra since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rudra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rudra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.