Udd

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Initialism of user-driven development

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/əd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Udd is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • SESweden
  • FIFinland

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

sharp point (of a knife or a pencil)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Udd is read(measured from records)

Udd is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English44%

    Initialism of user-driven development.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Swedish26%

    sharp point (of a knife or a pencil)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Urdu6.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Udd in Urdu.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Udd is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Welsh, lord, chief, king (commonly used of God)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Udd,
InformalHi Udd,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Udd
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1K#1,876
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—563#1,707
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—451—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010150#116,201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020138#129,045
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000136#118,236
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—21#13,591
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—13#5,266
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#51,822
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#242,152
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#232,963

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Udd come from?
sharp point (of a knife or a pencil) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Udd?
A machine transcription gives /əd/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Udd mean?
In English, Initialism of user-driven development.
In which country does Udd have the most bearers?
Udd is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Udd”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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