Rudy Boy Name

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The name Rudy is a diminutive form of Rudolph. The table below indicates the number of times the name Rudy has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Rudy**
Use of the Name Rudy for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
43,619	27,173	12,241	4,155	1,948	783	404

The table below indicates the number of times the name Rudy has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Rudy first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1886, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Rudy**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1886	833	7
1887	901	6
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892	850	8
1893	760	9
1894
1895
1896	967	7
1897
1898
1899
1900	729	13
1901	930	7
1902	784	10
1903	726	11
1904	804	10
1905
1906	541	19
1907	990	9
1908	739	14
1909	570	22
1910	567	26
1911	494	36
1912	690	39
1913	534	66
1914	667	59
1915	549	105
1916	564	103
1917	566	109
1918	629	96
1919	660	88
1920	602	110
1921	604	110
1922	520	142
1923	471	167
1924	427	207
1925	416	208
1926	297	368
1927	306	355
1928	314	323
1929	283	386
1930	268	438
1931	268	420
1932	269	417
1933	266	397
1934	245	469
1935	260	430
1936	275	388
1937	291	343
1938	244	482
1939	263	426
1940	272	425
1941	259	463
1942	278	476
1943	252	557
1944	244	550
1945	255	513
1946	248	621
1947	233	756
1948	245	697
1949	243	712
1950	265	613
1951	263	650
1952	271	648
1953	280	626
1954	271	674
1955	276	668
1956	270	726
1957	274	761
1958	283	734
1959	282	784
1960	278	832
1961	278	782
1962	297	674
1963	291	706
1964	316	602
1965	311	593
1966	322	537
1967	310	568
1968	338	516
1969	343	527
1970	372	479
1971	379	453
1972	355	472
1973	360	457
1974	362	452
1975	355	470
1976	343	502
1977	333	543
1978	318	552
1979	336	542
1980	359	494
1981	345	519
1982	348	533
1983	352	503
1984	363	492
1985	360	509
1986	345	551
1987	349	556
1988	357	574
1989	378	592
1990	388	597
1991	410	555
1992	387	591
1993	432	509
1994	441	511
1995	464	484
1996	478	456
1997	463	472
1998	526	392
1999	523	403
2000	558	376
2001	540	403
2002	566	386
2003	578	379
2004	557	404
Totals:		43,619		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Rudy as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Rudy appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 109 times during the last 125 years.

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