The Ruda surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,056 people carried this name — #22,706 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted.
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In Poland’s population register
1,255 people named Ruda have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 2,134 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Silesian.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 58 people named Ruda.
20 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ruda.
- Rubira 104 · U.S. census
- Rubis 407 · U.S. census
- Rubrecht 177 · U.S. census
- Ruby 8,955 · U.S. census
- Ruch 3,555 · U.S. census
- Ruck 2,049 · U.S. census
- Rude 4,650 · U.S. census
- Rudel 344 · U.S. census
- Rudi 322 · U.S. census
- Rudinger 112 · U.S. census
- Rudler 114 · U.S. census
- Rudloff 1,039 · U.S. census
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