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How popular is “Rudi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rudi” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Rudi” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Rudi” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Rudi” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Rudi” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Rudi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rudi” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1931 7 0.000003326 7 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 -100%
1966 15 0.000004316 15 -100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 -100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 -100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 -100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 24 0.000006724 15 9 25%
1986 41 0.000011526 27 14 32%
1987 32 0.000008875 19 13 19%
1988 33 0.000008931 22 11 33%
1989 30 0.000007803 21 9 40%
1990 33 0.000008349 21 12 27%
1991 28 0.000007188 10 18 -29%
1992 30 0.00000781 14 16 -7%
1993 38 0.000010079 23 15 21%
1994 31 0.000008339 23 8 48%
1995 27 0.000007373 17 10 26%
1996 25 0.000006855 14 11 12%
1997 31 0.00000855 18 13 16%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 100%
1999 16 0.000004332 10 6 25%
2000 14 0.000003704 8 6 14%
2001 19 0.000005076 9 10 -5%
2002 11 0.000002943 6 5 9%
2003 15 0.000003945 8 7 7%
2004 28 0.000007328 14 14 0%
2005 19 0.000004942 7 12 -26%
2006 21 0.000005308 12 9 14%
2007 16 0.000004002 10 6 25%
2008 17 0.000004325 7 10 -18%
2009 16 0.000004188 5 11 -38%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 6 5 9%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2015 19 0.000005134 7 12 -26%
2016 14 0.000003816 9 5 29%
2017 15 0.000004194 7 8 -7%
2018 17 0.000004835 9 8 6%
2019 18 0.000005186 10 8 11%
2020 20 0.000005987 14 6 40%
2021 24 0.000007084 19 5 58%
2022 24 0.000007094 13 11 8%
2023 17 0.000005134 8 9 -6%
2024 24 0.00000721 17 7 42%

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