The Rudi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 360 people carried this name — #56,710 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 833,300 people counted. That is up 12% from 322 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 382 people named Rudi live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
172 people named Rudi live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 74 people named Rudi.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Corsica.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
570 people named Rudi is counted in Norway.
Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rudi.
- Ruby 9,091 · U.S. census
- Ruch 3,682 · U.S. census
- Ruck 2,066 · U.S. census
- Ruda 1,085 · U.S. census
- Rude 4,661 · U.S. census
- Rudel 289 · U.S. census
- Rudinger 112 · U.S. census
- Rudler 109 · U.S. census
- Rudloff 1,078 · U.S. census
- Rudnik 565 · U.S. census
- Rudolf 1,246 · U.S. census
- Rudolph 19,854 · U.S. census
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