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    The surname Rude

    A surname, carried by 4,661 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex R300

    Rude: #7,174 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Rude #7,174, 4,661 people Rude: #7,174 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Rude #7,174, 4,661 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rude is more common than 95.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,661 people named Rude in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 66,240 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,650.

    #7,174
    rank among US surnames
    4,661
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #6,704)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,167Lomas4,66766,155
    #7,171Arneson4,66566,183
    #7,173Celaya4,66466,198
    #7,174Rude4,66166,240
    #7,177Valero4,66066,254
    #7,179Schutt4,65866,283

    Who is named Rude

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Rude identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Rude

    Rude has the Soundex code R300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Rude?
    4,661 people in the United States had the surname Rude in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 66,240 Americans. It ranked 7,174th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Rude?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rude identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Rude getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,650 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,661 in 2010, up 0.2%.