girls:
5 births since 1992
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
527 births since 1927
#4059 (11th percentile)
overall:
532 births since 1927
#7207 (7th percentile)
The name Ruddy is the #7,207 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 532 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 6.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,059 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 527 births since 1927. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1992.
Ruddy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 1992 for girls). Birth data for Ruddy is available in 60 out of the 96 years between 1927 and 2022 (60 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ruddy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ruddy reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #753) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Ruddy reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #859) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ruddy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ruddy is pronounced as RUH-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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