Rudland Family History
Rudland Name Meaning
from Middle English rid(de) rudde ‘cleared’ (Old English *(ge)rydde) + lond ‘land’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived on or near cleared land or toponymic for someone who came from a place so named such as Redland (Gloucs) or Redlands Fm in North Chapel (Sussex).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016