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The RUDDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,034 9831 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 792 6606 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +2242 -3225 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 165 9016 0.001 10
United Kingdom 1,472 3821 0.003 32
Top States for RUDDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 344 4350 0.003 28
New York 338 5681 0.002 18
California 242 10521 0.001 7
New Jersey 220 4347 0.003 26
Florida 217 8533 0.001 14
Top States for RUDDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 344 4350 0.003 28
New Jersey 220 4347 0.003 26
Connecticut 82 5516 0.002 24
Iowa 67 6641 0.002 23
Minnesota 109 6704 0.002 22

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

Classification and Origin of RUDDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 81 2.67
Mixed Race 28 0.92
Asian/Pacific 17 0.56
Black/African American 8 0.26
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.23
White (Caucasian) 2,893 95.35

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

Meaning of RUDDY in historical publications

RUDDY. Of red or sanguine complexion.

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 RUDDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUDDY.

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 RUDDY

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