# Rudi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rudi/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,246 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 761 / 485 (39% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,955, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Rudi.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | 15,085 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19,635 |
| 2013 | 6 | 16,165 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,699 |
| 2015 | 7 | 14,224 |
| 2016 | 9 | 11,612 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,838 |
| 2018 | 9 | 11,263 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,330 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,889 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,372 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,444 |
| 2023 | 8 | 11,997 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,884 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9,980 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | 7,597 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,863 |
| 2011 | 10 | 7,956 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,685 |
| 2015 | 12 | 7,001 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,815 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,524 |
| 2018 | 8 | 9,501 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,584 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,745 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,709 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,654 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,792 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,716 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9,541 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3,178 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,541 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,673 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3,035 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 49 | 662 |
| 2012 | 56 | 625 |
| 2013 | 56 | 611 |
| 2014 | 79 | 495 |
| 2015 | 73 | 526 |
| 2016 | 73 | 531 |
| 2017 | 76 | 517 |
| 2018 | 87 | 465 |
| 2019 | 98 | 424 |
| 2020 | 124 | 354 |
| 2021 | 113 | 385 |
| 2022 | 121 | 349 |
| 2023 | 130 | 334 |
| 2024 | 110 | 379 |
| 2025 | 110 | 376 |

## People named Rudi

- Rudi Völler, German footballer and manager
- Rudi Vata, Albanian association football player
- Rudi Garcia, French football manager
- Rudi Carrell, entertainer on Dutch and German television (1934–2006)
- Rudi Assauer, German football player and executive (1944–2019)
- Rudi Glöckner, German football referee (1929–1999)
- Rudi Smidts, Belgian footballer
- Rudi Gutendorf, German football manager (1926-2019)
- Rudi Fink, East German boxer
- Rudi Hoffmann, German footballer (1935–2020)
- Rudi Ball, German ice hockey player (1910–1975)
- Rudi Hiden, French footballer (1909–1973)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.