Family name origins & meanings
- North German (Rudmann) and Dutch : variant of Rothman(n) (see Rothman).
- English : nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Middle English rudde ‘red’, ‘ruddy’ (see Rudd 1) + man ‘man’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Rude (variant of Rode used in Poland and Ukraine; compare Ratkovich) + Yiddish man ‘man’, in the sense ‘husband’.