Rudkin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: diminutive of Middle English rudde 'red', or of Old Norse Rudda; first attested Ralph Rudkyn Hy 3 Gilb (L)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɹədkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rudkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 780Kas Рудкин(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 575K
  • NONorway1 in 683K

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 Rudkin 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.

United States (measured from records)

579 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 575K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RudkinLatin(measured from records)
РудкинCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Рудкин in RU Russia and Рудкін in UA Ukraine.

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)

diminutive of Middle English rudde 'red', or of Old Norse Rudda; first attested Ralph Rudkyn Hy 3 Gilb (L)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rudkin 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.

Where Rudkin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5791 in 575K579Rudkin7
RU Russia≈180 est.≈1 in 780K—Рудкин80
UA Ukraine≈50 est.≈1 in 872K—Рудкін10
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15——
PL Poland81 in 4.8M8Rudkin3
NO Norway81 in 683K8—1

579 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Rudkin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, little Rudd

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In Irish, Bibl

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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)

1850190019502000Charles Rudkin, b. 1872Filipp Rudkin, b. 1893Margaret Rudkin, b. 1897Tommy Rudkin, b. 1919David Rudkin, b. 1936Alan Rudkin, b. 1941Dave M. Rudkin, b. 1951James Rudkin, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Rudkin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Rudkin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010579#38,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020530#43,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000519#39,824
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—15#97,717
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20268—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#60,051
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8#157,250
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Rudkin mean, and where does it come from?
diminutive of Middle English rudde 'red', or of Old Norse Rudda; first attested Ralph Rudkyn Hy 3 Gilb (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Rudkin?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɹədkɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Rudkin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 579 people named Rudkin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rudkin.
Where is Rudkin most common?
Rudkin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 575 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Rudkin?
In the United States, the national register counted 579 people named Rudkin in 2010, about 1 in 575 thousand residents.

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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, “Rudkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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