Ruddy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ruðdi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruddy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 283K(measured from records)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 1.5K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruddy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ruddy | 15 |
| FR France | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 3.3K | — | 4 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ruddy | 25 |
| US United States | 1,176 | 1 in 283K | 3.3K | Ruddy | 294 |
| VE Venezuela | 940 | 1 in 30K | 940 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 353 | 1 in 14K | 353 | — | — |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 5 | — | — |
| MQ Martinique | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 5 | — | — |
| GF French Guiana | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ruddy Rodríguezb. 1967VEpageant titleholder, actress, model and businesswoman
- Ruddy Awahb. 1969MYMalaysian politician
- Lilian Thuramb. 1972FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1972)
- Ruddy Nelhommeb. 1972FRFrench basketball coach
- Ruddy Buquetb. 1977FRFrench football referee
- Ruddy Pomarèdeb. 1978FRFrench teacher, known as director and screenwriter of webseries ("Damned" and "Flander's company")
- Ruddy Lugob. 1980DODominican Republic baseball player
- Ruddy Warnierb. 1988BEBelgian politician
- Ruddy M'Passib. 1989CGCongolese and French footballer
- Ruddy LeloucheCAcomputer scientist, researcher and university professor
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 49 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Ruddy mean, and where does it come from?
- Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ruddy?
- A machine transcription gives /ruðdi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ruddy a male or female name?
- Ruddy 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.
- In which country does Ruddy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Ruddy in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruddy.
- How common is the name Ruddy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,176 people named Ruddy in 2020, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruddyThe 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, “Ruddy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.