Dudley
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning dudda's clearing or meadow.
Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Dudley by the numbers
Dudley was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 279 babies in 1931, so it is a 1930s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dudley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Dudley, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Savannahgrassy plain; treeless plain5,231 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Kinsleyfrom the king's meadow; an English place name used as given name4,048 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haileyhay meadow; form of Hayley3,691 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dudley
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