The Rude surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,661 people carried this name — #7,174 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 63,300 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (4,650).
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 275 people named Rude.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Ain.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
27 people named Rude is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Rude in American newspapers,
1902–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 522,555 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rude.
- Rubis 408 · U.S. census
- Rubrecht 205 · U.S. census
- Ruby 9,091 · U.S. census
- Ruch 3,682 · U.S. census
- Ruck 2,066 · U.S. census
- Ruda 1,085 · U.S. census
- Rudel 289 · U.S. census
- Rudi 360 · U.S. census
- Rudinger 112 · U.S. census
- Rudler 109 · U.S. census
- Rudloff 1,078 · U.S. census
- Rudnik 565 · U.S. census
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