Rudman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form of Rudd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹədmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rudman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 20K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 48K
- UYUruguay1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,277 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a different form of Rudd
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rudman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,277 | 1 in 260K | 1.4K | Rudman | 36 |
| SI Slovenia | 105 | 1 in 20K | 105 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 89 | 1 in 48K | 89 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 39 | 1 in 1.2M | 39 | Rudman | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | Rudman | 4 |
1,277 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Rudman 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.
In English, Warren Bruce, US po itician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Harold Rudmanb. 1924GBEnglish footballer (1924-2013)
- Warren Rudmanb. 1930USAmerican politician (1930-2012)
- Michael Rudmanb. 1939USAmerican theatre director
- David Rudmanb. 1943RUWrestler and martial artist
- Mark Rudmanb. 1948USAmerican academic
- David Rudmanb. 1963USAmerican puppeteer
- Silvio Rudmanb. 1969ARArgentinian association football player and manager
- Shelley Rudmanb. 1981GBBritish skeleton bobsleigh athlete
- Gustave Rudman RambaliFRFranco-Swedish composer, arranger and producer
- Dušan RudmanSIresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,709 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 105 | #4,230 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 89 | #8,701 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 86 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 39 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
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 Rudman mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Rudd Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Rudman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹədmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rudman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Rudman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rudman.
- Where is Rudman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rudman is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rudman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,277 people named Rudman in 2010, about 1 in 260 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudmanThe 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, “Rudman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.