Rudy

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rudy: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #181, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#181highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#4564
2013	#4739
2014	#3514
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2019	#2458
2020	#3447
2021	#3192
2022	#3148
2023	#2504
2024	#3695

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #182 among boys in England and Wales, #216 among boys in Northern Ireland, #227 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1104 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #181 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Rudy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,149 births with the name.

Rudy across 4 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.

Rudy'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
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#181 (2023)	#182 (2024)	29 of 29	3,149 (1996–2024)	286 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#378 (2008)	#213 (2020)	#216 (2024)	13 of 17	63 (2008–2024)	9 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#4564 (2009)	#2458 (2019)	#3695 (2024)	11 of 16	71 (2009–2024)	10 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#718 (2012)	#715 (2014)	#829 (2025)	4 of 14	12 (2012–2025)	3 (2012)

Rudy by decade in England and Wales · 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 Rudy in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	35	4 of 10	9
2000s	455	10 of 10	46
2010s	1,348	10 of 10	135
2020sbusiest	1,311	5 of 10	262

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 262 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rudy 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #181 in England and Wales in 2023.

Rudy'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	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#182	278	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#181	286	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#188	272	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#207	262	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#228	213	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#264	185	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#271	187	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#311	161	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#326	145	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#331	141	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#335	134	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#382	106	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#445	89	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#413	96	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#384	104	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#442	85	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#465	76	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#501	65	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#596	48	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#477	58	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#541	48	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#546	42	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1077	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1379	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1345	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#216	9	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#326	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#213	9	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#319	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#227	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #181, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 286 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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 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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Rueben · #339, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Aston · #181, 29y
Kody · #181, 30y
Ally · #180, 30y
Ellie-Mae · #180, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aston · #181, 29y
Kody · #181, 30y
Ally · #180, 30y
Balder · #182, 31y

Rudy was ranked #181 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. 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.

Rudy 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 Rudy without appearing here.

Rudy moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3583 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.
Evan Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3583 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #4686.
Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Rudy

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #1743.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.
Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3514 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2757.
Francis Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #2488.

Moved the opposite way to Rudy

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Rudy

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rudy went from #1104 to #182 and Archie from #192 to #10.

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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #181 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rudy

Rudy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rudy across 4 official records

Rudy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rudy appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rudy and the names beside it

Rudy moved ahead of

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Rudy at a glance

Rudy across 4 official records

Rudy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rudy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rudy

Rudy and the names beside it

Rudy moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rudy

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