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The RUDDLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 599 35522 0 2
United States (1880 census) 292 14570 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +307 -20952 +N/A -4
Other Countries
Australia 103 13951 0.001 6
United Kingdom 513 8679 0.001 11
Top States for RUDDLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 116 2034 0.006 64
California 48 42960 0.000 1
Virginia 47 12683 0.001 7
Tennessee 45 9748 0.001 8
Ohio 44 26147 0.000 4
Top States for RUDDLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 116 2034 0.006 64
Hawaii 16 7029 0.001 13
Kansas 27 11447 0.001 10
Tennessee 45 9748 0.001 8
Virginia 47 12683 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of RUDDLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RUDDLE 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 RUDDLE 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 RUDDLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 566 94.49
Asian/Pacific 10 1.67
White (Hispanic) 10 1.67
Black/African American 6 1
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of RUDDLE in historical publications

RUDDLE. A member of the family of Picard changed his name to Ruddle, at the instance of King Edward IV., the latter being the designation of his birth-place. Blore's Monument. Rem. I do not find the locality.

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 RUDDLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUDDLE.

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 RUDDLE

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