Rudi
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to boys 61.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 761since 1931
Rudi over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #4,523 | 21 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #3,277 | 27 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,972 | 15 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,965 | 15 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,897 | 15 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,203 | 12 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,120 | 11 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,470 | 11 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,043 | 15 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #2,114 | 15 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,910 | 18 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,015 | 16 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
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| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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First appearance
1931
The first year at least five boys were named Rudi! It came in at #3,095, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1932–1933, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Rudi is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Rudi in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Rudi
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 984 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #8,910)
- 1,695 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #8,910)
- 2,234 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
29 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1931
- Peaked 1960 at #1,910 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1962, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 86,412
- Highest: 1 in 86,412 boys born in 1978 were named Rudi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,910 in 1960, was only 1 in 118,462 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
- 15.9% of all boys named Rudi (121) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 18 | #3,095 (1931) | #3,284 |
| 1940s | 22 | #2,732 (1943) | #2,922 |
| 1950s | 80 | #2,015 (1956) | #3,124 |
| 1960s | 110 | #1,910 (1960) | #2,469 |
| 1970s | 104 | #2,375 (1978) | #3,477 |
| 1980s | 121 | #2,965 (1980) | #3,702 |
| 1990s | 109 | #3,325 (1991) | #5,104 |
| 2000s | 90 | #5,492 (2004) | #8,044 |
| 2010s | 61 | #6,676 (2015) | #9,660 |
| 2020s | 46 | #7,262 (2022) | #9,512 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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