Name meaning & stats
Dudley
Dudley. 5,878 US babies since 1940, peak 1947.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 1947
5,878 US babies were named Dudley between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Dudley (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1947)