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Rudra: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 152 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,289 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Rudra in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,289 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Rudra: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 152 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,289 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 152 (2025).
In 2025, 152 US boys were named Rudra, making it the 1,289th most common boys’ name of the year, up 48 places from #1,337 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 144 boys named Rudra in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,289, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 152. For comparison, it was #1,996 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rudra in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 9 babies. In all, 1,795 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 779 babies named Rudra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,124 US boys were named Rudra; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,237 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rudra ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #563 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 13 | #563 | — |
| New Jersey | 13 | #570 | #578 |
| Maryland | 5 | #899 | — |
| California | 26 | #900 | #2,219 |
| Illinois | 8 | #998 | #1,062 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,162 | #1,884 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,220 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,276 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,328 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,594 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 152 | #1,289 |
| 2024 | — | — | 144 | #1,337 |
| 2023 | — | — | 134 | #1,388 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,045 | 99 | #1,719 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,932 | 98 | #1,686 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,215 | 98 | #1,644 |
| 2019 | — | — | 103 | #1,612 |
| 2018 | — | — | 109 | #1,552 |
| 2017 | — | — | 101 | #1,601 |
| 2016 | — | — | 86 | #1,782 |
| 2015 | — | — | 73 | #1,996 |
| 2014 | — | — | 77 | #1,902 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,703 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,225 |
| 2011 | — | — | 82 | #1,778 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #1,998 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,637 | 44 | #2,792 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,077 | 56 | #2,339 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,408 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,728 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,035 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,739 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,610 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,517 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #8,160 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,286 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).