Rudra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: crying; howling; roaring; terrific; roarer (The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Rudra is a surname written in the Latin script.
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 15Kfew records
- GYGuyana1 in 24K
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 Rudra 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540,000 named Ashwini, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Rudra in other scripts: Latin and Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ashwini in IN India, US United States, NL Netherlands and রুদ্র in BD Bangladesh.
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)crying; howling; roaring; terrific; roarer. angry; thunder and lightning; red and flashing.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rudra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #753 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 8.2K | Ashwini | 228 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | রুদ্র | 38 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Rudra | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 138K | listed | Rudra | 18 |
| US United States | — | 2,014as Ashwini | 1 in 165K | 1.9K | Ashwini | 254 |
| QA Qatar | #594 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Rudra | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 64 | 1 in 270K | 64 | Ashwini | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 31 | 1 in 24K | 31 | Rudra | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Rudra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
rudraksha plant whose berries are used for rosaries
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In English, A Rigvedic deity, associated with wind or storm and the hunt.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Agni (५); Indra (५); Dattatreya (N); Ganega (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Latvian, Senindiešu mitoloģijā - dievība, pērkona, niknuma, dusmu personifikācija, dieva Šivas priekštecis vēdismā; graujošais spēks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Shalini RudraINresearcher
- Atri RudraUSPh.D. University of Washington 2007
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)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Rudra come from?
- crying; howling; roaring; terrific; roarer. angry; thunder and lightning; red and flashing. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Rudra a male or female name?
- Rudra is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Rudra mean?
- Recorded meaning: crying; howling; roaring; terrific; roarer.
- Which countries have the most people named Rudra?
- Mondonomo estimates about 541 thousand people named Ashwini in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rudra?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 64 people named Rudra, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Rudra compared with other names?
- In India, Rudra is the 753rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rudra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudraThe 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, “Rudra” — ranked 1110th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.