Rudi

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rudi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rudi: Recorded since 1957, it reached #193 in 2020, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
114times a registrar ranked it
69years from first to last
#193highest recorded position
22groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#2411
1998	#3848
1999	#3900
2000	#3912
2001	#2466
2005	#3970
2008	#4524
2009	#3422
2010	#5707
2012	#5876
2013	#4050
2014	#4003
2015	#3615
2016	#3609
2017	#4063
2018	#3178
2019	#3541
2020	#2843
2021	#2942
2022	#2673
2023	#3218
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 39 of the 51 years from 1957 to 2007.

In 2024: #199 among boys in Scotland, #239 among boys in Northern Ireland, #379 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1957–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1957
First recorded at #332 among boys in Norway in 1957 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded2005–2024
Highest recorded position: #193 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2005–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Rudi appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 39 years beginning in 1957, and has registered 473 births with the name.

Rudi across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rudi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#332 (1957)	#198 (1980)	#492 (2007)	39 of 51	473 (1957–2007)	32 (1980)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#326 (1978)	#303 (1987)	#676 (2025)	7 of 48	22 (1978–2025)	4 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#334 (2023)	#379 (2024)	29 of 29	1,713 (1996–2024)	130 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2411 (1997)	#3318 (2024)	23 of 29	124 (1996–2024)	9 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#265 (2005)	#193 (2020)	#239 (2024)	15 of 20	84 (2005–2024)	10 (2020)

Rudi by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rudi in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	8	1 of 10	8
1960s	53	7 of 10	8
1970s	112	10 of 10	11
1980sbusiest	197	10 of 10	20
1990s	92	9 of 10	10
2000s	11	2 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Rudi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1957 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #193 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Rudi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#379	110	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#334	130	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#349	121	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#385	113	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#354	124	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#424	98	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#465	87	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#517	76	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#531	73	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#526	73	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#495	79	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#611	56	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#625	56	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#662	49	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#574	59	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#711	42	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#640	48	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#622	47	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#596	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#590	45	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#678	35	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#586	38	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#691	28	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1379	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1130	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#239	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#232	8	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#207	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#193	10	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#365	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#421	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#314	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#265	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#492	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#523	5	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#415	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#537	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#398	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#403	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#375	10	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#435	8	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#315	15	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#466	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#262	20	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#300	16	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#285	17	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#289	17	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#218	29	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#338	14	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#273	19	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#338	14	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#263	20	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#264	19	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#198	32	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#262	19	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#346	13	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#238	21	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#569	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#357	12	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#361	12	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#422	9	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#494	7	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#456	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#509	6	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#476	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#341	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#345	10	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#346	10	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#404	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#446	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#489	4	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#332	8	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#199	21	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1957 and 2025, ranked in 64 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #193, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 130 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1978, and 67 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Rudie · #1230, 19y
Rudolf · #220, 39y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amal · #208, 62y
Marco · #214, 65y
Jimmy · #216, 68y
Louisa · #166, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Leszek · #192, 33y
Tadeusz · #194, 51y
Stephan · #196, 64y
Wieslaw · #197, 31y

Rudi was ranked #193 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rudi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rudi without appearing here.

Rudi moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.
Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4003 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #5581.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Rudi

Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3422 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #1893.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4003 and #1628.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2466 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3970 and #2682.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #3615 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Rudi

Aksel Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 while Aksel went from #221 to #53.
Eirik Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 while Eirik went from #141 to #29.
Elias Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 while Elias went from #423 to #5.
Emil Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 while Emil went from #255 to #3.

Moved the same way as Rudi

Arild Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 and Arild from #26 to #470.
Arne Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 and Arne from #10 to #181.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 and Bjørn from #3 to #117.
Dag Compare
Between 1957 and 2007 in Norway · Boys, Rudi went from #332 to #492 and Dag from #29 to #303.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1957 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #193 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rudi

Rudi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rudi across 5 official records

Rudi by decade in Norway · Boys

Rudi appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Rudi

Rudi and the names beside it

Rudi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rudi

Moved the opposite way to Rudi

Moved the same way as Rudi

Rudi at a glance

Rudi across 5 official records

Rudi by decade in Norway · Boys

Rudi appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Rudi

Rudi and the names beside it

Rudi moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rudi

Moved the opposite way to Rudi

Moved the same way as Rudi