Rudzitis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rudzitis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common surname.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
- NONorway1 in 144K
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.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rudzītis in LV Latvia, EE Estonia.
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)
Iš lat. Rudzitis (LAG 11, 13, 23 ir kt.).
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rudzitis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #37 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Rudzītis | 37 |
| US United States | — | 126 | 1 in 2.6M | 126 | Rudzitis | 78 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Rudzitis | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 38 | 1 in 144K | 38 | Rudzitis | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Rudzitis | 24 |
| FI Finland | — | 13 | 1 in 429K | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 758K | — | Rudzitis | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | Rudzītis | 4 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Rihards Rudzītisb. 1898LVSoviet writer and poet (1898-1960)
- Edmunds Rudzītisb. 1942LVLatvian writer and physician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 121 | #129,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 114 | #146,495 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #30,409 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 13 | #43,477 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- In which country does Rudzitis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 526 people named Rudzitis in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rudzītis.
- How common is the name Rudzitis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 126 people named Rudzitis in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Rudzitis compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Rudzitis is the 37th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudzitisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rudzitis” — the 37th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.