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 #155, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#155highest recorded position

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2024

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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 2025.

In 2025: #155 among boys in England and Wales, #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

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

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #155 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #155 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Rudy appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,490 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)	#155 (2025)	#155 (2025)	30 of 30	3,490 (1996–2025)	341 (2025)
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	1,652	6 of 10	275

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 275 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #155 in England and Wales in 2025.

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
2025	England and Wales	male	#155	341	High	Verified
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.

Where Rudy is officially recorded

4 official registrars have recorded Rudy, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#155 in 2025
Northern Ireland	2008–2024	13	#213 in 2020
Republic of Ireland	2012–2025	4	#715 in 2014
Scotland	2024	1	#227 in 2024

Its high point came 11 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (2014) than in England and Wales (2025).

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #155, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 341 births, registered in England and Wales in 2025.

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.

Rudra · #520, 21y
Rudransh · #856, 10y
Rue · #333, 13y
Rueben · #339, 30y

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.

Scarlet · #155, 30y
Luan · #154, 29y
Polly · #156, 31y
Alayna · #153, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Scarlet · #155, 30y
Luan · #154, 29y
Polly · #156, 31y
Alayna · #153, 30y

Rudy was ranked #155 in England and Wales · Boys in 2025. 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.

Atlas#151
Archer#152
Matthew#153
Dexter#154
Isaiah#156
Omar#157
Brodie#158
Eesa#159

What is known about Rudy

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 4 official registrars, 1996–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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: #155 in England and Wales in 2025. 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

Popularity data

Where Rudy is officially recorded

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

What is known about Rudy

Rudy at a glance

Rudy across 4 official records

Rudy by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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