Name: Dudley
Gender: Male
Usage: Dudley is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Dudley are in general originating from Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Dudley is: Wood or clearing of dudda.
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Numerology of the first name Dudley: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Dudley is ranked on the 5,982nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 48800 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Dudley has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Dudley for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Dudley is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Dudley Bradley (born 1957), American retired basketball player
- Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American composer
- Dudley Chase (1771–1846), twice US Senator from Vermont
- Dudley Digges (c. 1583–1639), English diplomat and politician
- Dudley Digges (actor) (1879–1947), Irish stage and film actor
- Dudley Doolittle (1881–1957), American politician
- Dudley Evans (1886–1972), English cricketer
- Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist also known as Dudly Ferbisie
- Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair 1883–1972), British peer, soldier and industrialist
- Dudley Hart (born 1968), American professional golfer
- Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Dudley Knowles, Scottish political philosopher and professor
- Dudley Le Souef (1856–1923), Australian ornithologist
- Dudley Moore (1935–2002), English actor and comedian
- Dudley Nichols (1895–1960), American screenwriter
- Dudley Pope (1925–1997), British writer of nautical fiction and history
- Dudley Pope (cricketer) (1906–1934), English cricketer
- Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
- Dudley Rippon (1892–1963), English cricketer
- Dudley Ryder (disambiguation)
- Dudley Senanayake (1911–1973), 2nd, 6th and 8th Prime Minister of Ceylon
Fictional characters:
- Dudley (character), character of Shorty McShorts' Shorts
- Dudley (Street Fighter), British boxer from the Street Fighter video game series
- Dudley Dursley, in the Harry Potter books
- Dudley Do-Right, animated Canadian Mountie
- Dudley Liam Smith, James Ellroy's "L.A. Confidential" villain
- Dudley Puppy, main protagonist of T.U.F.F. Puppy
- Dudley, angel in the film The Bishop's Wife played by Cary Grant
English: transferred use of the surname of a noble family, who came originally from Dudley in the West Midlands, named in Old English as the ‘wood or clearing of Dudda’. Their most famous member was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (?1532–88), who came closer than any other man to marrying Queen Elizabeth I. In America this given name is much less common than in England. In Ireland it was formerly used as an Anglicized form of Dubhdara and Dara and of Dubhaltach (see Duald).
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