girls:
1.1k births since 1912
#4594 (20th percentile)
boys:
49.5k births since 1882
#500 (89th percentile)
overall:
50.7k births since 1882
#1068 (86th percentile)
The name Rudy is the #1,068 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50,668 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 86.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #500 (89.1% percentile) for all time with 49,546 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #4,594 (19.6% percentile) for all time with 1,122 births since 1912.
Rudy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Rudy is available in 134 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (134 years for boys and 105 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 Rudy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 93.6% of babies named Rudy were boys.
For boys, Rudy reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 61.9% percentile (ranked #228) with 406 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 442 births per million (ranked 55.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rudy ranks #631 for boys (30.8% percentile) with 159 births per million, which is 36.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rudy reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #792) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rudy ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 78.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rudy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Rudy is pronounced as RUE-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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