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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

'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.

Meaning of RUDDER in historical publications

RUDDER. A corruption of Rutter.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RUDDER

The following words are slight variants of RUDDER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.