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rudd Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English rudde, Old English rud ‘red’, ‘ruddy’.
  2. Americanized shortened form of any of various Jewish surnames beginning with Rud-.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rudd Families in the US in 1920
Number of rudd families
 80-158
 27-79
 1-26
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