Rudd

At the 2020 census, 13,774 Americans bore the surname Rudd — 2,557th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,700.

By the numbers

People: 13,774
Rank: 2,557th
How common: 1 in 21,700
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rudd described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.1%
Black, not Hispanic 13.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Rudd

Kevin Rudd (born 1957)26th Prime Minister of Australia
Paul Rudd (born 1969)American actor
Amber Rudd (born 1963)British politician
Phil Rudd (born 1954)Australian drummer
Emily Rudd (born 1993)American actress
Bevil Rudd (1895–1948)athletics competitor
Declan Rudd (born 1991)English association football player
Roswell Rudd (1935–2017)American jazz trombonist and composer

People named Rudd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rudd

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.