Tudor: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Tudor – Meaning: ruler of the people – Origin: Welsh (Celtic) – Gender: Boy – Pronunciation: TOO-dor


Tudor is a Welsh (Celtic) boy's name meaning “ruler of the people”. It appears in 2 of our baby name lists.

Meaning & Origin of Tudor

Meaning: Ruler of the people.

Origin: Welsh (Celtic).

A common claim: Form of Theodore, meaning 'gift of God' Actually: This isn't wrong for the separate Romanian tradition where Tudor is used as a vernacular form of Theodore — but it's often misapplied to the Welsh/British Tudor name, whose own documented root is Celtic *Toutorīxs ('ruler of the people'), unrelated to Theodore.

Source: Wiktionary.

How to Pronounce Tudor

Phonetic: TOO-dor   IPA: /ˈtuːdɔːr/

Popularity of Tudor

Tudor doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

Lists That Include Tudor

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