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How popular is the name Rudy?

Births per year, rank history and how many Rudies are alive today.

Rudy (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 155th in 2025 with 341 babies given the name. It has risen strongly over the past decade. Rudy is one spelling of a name also recorded as Rudi; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Rudy you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Rudies born in England and Wales are between 4 and 15, and there are at least 5,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 1.8% chance that at least one of them will be called Rudy.

How many babies are named Rudy each year?

Includes all spellings: Rudy, Rudi. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Rudy spelling rank?

Where does the Rudi spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.