Rudy
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A diminutive of the male given name Rudolph
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹuːdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rudy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.7K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rudy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 473 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rudi in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given name Rudolph.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rudy is read(measured from records)
Rudy is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
A diminutive of the male given name Rudolph.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Teutonic; a famous wolf
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Spanish23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rudy in Spanish.
- French9.1%
Diminutif de Rodolphe; origine germanique, « gloire » et « loup ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Diminutif de Rudolf/Rodolphe, d’origine germanique.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Diminutif de Rudolf/Rodolphe.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- Indonesian6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rudy in Indonesian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rudy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #63 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Rudi | 218 |
| PH Philippines | #437 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Rudy | 93 |
| US United States | #831 | 41,251 | 1 in 8.1K | 277K | Rudy | 473 |
| FR France | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 20K | Rudy | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,507as Rut | 1 in 618 | 17K | Rudy | 19 |
| BE Belgium | #256 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 264 | Rudy | 120 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 722as Rudi | 1 in 2.9K | 722 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rudy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pet form of Rudolf.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rudy Valléeb. 1901USAmerican singer, actor, and entertainer (1901–1986)
- Rudi Fehrb. 1911DEnot in their usual nameGerman-American film editor (1911-1999)
- Rudy Bondb. 1912USAmerican actor (1912-1982)
- Egon Krenzb. 1937DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician, communist leader of East Germany
- Rudi Dutschkeb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman student activist (1940–1979)
- Rudi Völlerb. 1960DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer and manager (born 1960)
- Rudi Garciab. 1964FRnot in their usual nameFrench football manager
- Rudy Gayb. 1986USAmerican basketball player (born 1986)
- Rudy Gestedeb. 1988FRBeninese-French footballer (born 1988)
- Rudy Gobertb. 1992FRFrench basketball player (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 95 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,024 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 20K | #1,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #1,024 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 354 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 128 | #7,210 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 33 | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rudy a male or female name?
- Rudy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Rudy mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the male given name Rudolph. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rudy?
- In the etymology graph, Rudi, Roel and Ruud are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Rudolph and Rodolph.
- How do you pronounce Rudy?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹuːdi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rudy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 142 thousand people named Rudy in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rudi.
- How common is the name Rudy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,251 people named Rudy in 2020, about 1 in 8.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Rudy compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Rudy is the 63rd most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rudy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rudy” — the 63rd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.