Ruddy
Ruddy is a boy's name that peaked in 1992, when it was the 2,999th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 460 Ruddys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ruddy boys named Ruddy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 541
- Estimated living today
- 460
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1992
- Best rank
- 2,999th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1927
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 536
How old the living Ruddys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 541 babies given the name since 1927, about 460 are alive — 85 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Ruddys
- Ruddy Buquet (born 1977)French football referee
- Ruddy RodrÃguez (born 1967)pageant titleholder, actress, model and businesswoman
People named Ruddy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ruddy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ruddy is most concentrated in New York (11.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1992
The most popular boys’ names the year Ruddy peaked:
Ruddy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Ruddy | 3,340 | 274th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Ruddy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.