Given name
Rudyard
“from the red paddock”
Rudyard is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “from the red paddock.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the red paddock.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English Rudierd, from Old English rude.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rudyard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 42 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 253 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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