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The RUDOLPH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,462 1688 0.007 72
United States (1880 census) 3,891 1572 0.008 78
Change since 1880 +15571 -116 -0.001 -6
Other Countries
Australia 292 5332 0.002 18
United Kingdom 0 0
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of RUDOLPH

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of RUDOLPH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 323 1.66
Mixed Race 307 1.58
Asian/Pacific 113 0.58
Native American/Alaskan 66 0.34
White (Caucasian) 14,779 75.94
Black/African American 3,873 19.9

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RUDOLPH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of RUDOLPH in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of RUDOLPH.

Similar names to RUDOLPH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RUDOLPH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RUDOLPH

The following words are slight variants of RUDOLPH that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.