The Rudloff surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,078 people carried this name — #23,555 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 270,300 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,039 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Rudloff surname
Derived from a variation of the given name Rudolf. The name consists of the stems "hruod" which means honour or renown and "wolf" which means wolf.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Rudloff» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 325 people named Rudloff.
11 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
28 people named Rudloff live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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.
Who carried it
People named Rudloff,
with a public archive behind them.
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Wilhelm August Rudloff 1747–1823 · university teacher -
Wilhelm August Rudloff 1780–1854 · jurist -
Johannes Rudloff 1848–1934 · university teacher -
Luis Rudloff Sangmeister 1852–1928 · lawyer -
Luis Rudloff Sangmeister 1852–1928 · lawyer
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August Rudloff 1639–1703 · jurist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Rudloff.
- Ruda 1,085 · U.S. census
- Rude 4,661 · U.S. census
- Rudel 289 · U.S. census
- Rudi 360 · U.S. census
- Rudinger 112 · U.S. census
- Rudler 109 · U.S. census
- Rudnik 565 · U.S. census
- Rudolf 1,246 · U.S. census
- Rudolph 19,854 · U.S. census
- Rudy 7,069 · U.S. census
- Rue 5,023 · U.S. census
- Rueda 9,253 · U.S. census
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