The RUDDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,673	10923	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	416	11147	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+2257	+224	0	+2
Other Countries
Australia	214	7078	0.001	13
United Kingdom	143	20050	0	3

Top States for RUDDER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	227	3521	0.004	40
New York	181	11288	0.001	10
Texas	181	10335	0.001	9
North Carolina	164	5358	0.002	20
California	150	17167	0.000	4
Top States for RUDDER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Arkansas	143	2627	0.005	53
Tennessee	227	3521	0.004	40
Kentucky	140	3648	0.003	35
Alabama	135	4165	0.003	30
Virginia	149	5577	0.002	21

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RUDDER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RUDDER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RUDDER in Tennessee than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RUDDER by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RUDDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RUDDER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RUDDER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RUDDER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	445	16.65
Mixed Race	51	1.91
White (Hispanic)	32	1.2
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.64
Asian/Pacific	10	0.37
White (Caucasian)	2,118	79.24

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RUDDER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to RUDDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUDDER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.