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Rudra vs Rudransh

American parents have registered 1,795 Rudras since 1880, against 442 Rudranshes. Rudra is still ahead, with 152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rudra against Rudransh, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rudra Rudransh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rudra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2000 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Rudra had 144 and Rudransh had 83.

Side by side

  Rudra Rudransh
Total US births 1,795442
Most in one year 15283
Babies in 2025 15268
Estimated living today 1,800440
Median age today 73
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 1,287th boys1,902nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,287th2,125th
First recorded 20002014
Girls / boys 32 / 1,7630 / 442

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rudras alive today are over 7; half the Rudranshes are over 3. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rudra Rudransh
England and Wales 560128
France 155

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rudra and Rudransh.