Ruedi

surname · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ruedi is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 1.9K
  • BEBelgium1 in 3.7K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 5.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7.1K

across 13 countries

Sources
193

94K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.9K

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts

RudiLatin · German72K records

Locally spelled Rudi in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, US United States and 12 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Ruedi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#33263,32063K rec.Rudi154
NL Netherlands#76020,3992K rec.3.8KRudi65
BE Belgium#4414,2323.4K rec.19Rudi99
BR Brazil3,02613 rec.1 in 70K3.8KRudi4
ZA South Africa2,9762.7K rec.Rudi61
CH Switzerland2,8071.4K rec.163Ruedi74
AT Austria#6512,5341.6K rec.40Rudi59
GB United Kingdom2,3121.4K rec.21Rudi108
AU Australia1,9271.8K rec.Rudi118
US United States1,26913K rec.1 in 262K1.3KRudi193
SI Slovenia72233 rec.1 in 2.9K72217
CA Canada680670 rec.1Rudi52

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Languages

  • German2.9K51%
  • English1.1K20%
  • Spanish1K18%
  • Portuguese1463%
  • Chinese922%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German2,85651%
English1,13320%
Spanish1,00318%
Portuguese1463%
Chinese922%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Ruedi is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname1.7K records spelled Ruedi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Rüedi

  • Spanish surname1.5K records spelled Ruedi5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rüedi

  • French surname169 records spelled Ruedi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States, Philippines

    Also written Rüedi, Ruëdi

  • a separate surname140 records spelled Ruedi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States

    Also written Rüedi

  • Italian surname102 records spelled Ruedi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Also written Rüedi

  • Indonesian surname82 records spelled Ruedi3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Rüedi

  • Hindi surname74 records spelled Ruedi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Rüedi

  • Hungarian surname57 records spelled Ruedi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Also written Rüedi

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

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

Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ruedi?
We estimate roughly 7.1 thousand people bear Ruedi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Ruedi have the most bearers?
Ruedi is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled rudi.
How common is Ruedi compared with other names?
In Germany, Ruedi is the 332nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Ruedi” — the 332nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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