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Rudyard Kipling is, of course, who everyone will think of when they hear this name. In fact, I have never heard of anyone else with this name. So certainly keep that in mind. Aside from that, it does have a definite English feel to it. Maybe not quite pretentious, but definitely a little bit elitist.
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Rudyard Kipling's name didn't come from a surname. He was named after Rudyard Lake in Rudyard, Staffordshire. [noted -ed]
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I love the sound of Rudyard, and I don't find it snobby-sounding at all. Being a huge fan of his writing, I might use this name for a future son's middle name.
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Pretentious, pretentious, pretentious. Would only make people think of Kipling, and this probably sounded elitist and snobby even a couple of hundred years ago.
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Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book, and Rudyard was also the name of an evil character in P.B. Kerr's "The Akhenaten Adventure."
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Rudyard Kipling also wrote that grade school classic "Rikki-tikki-tavi".
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