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Rodolphe

Boys' name

Form of Rudolf

Rodolphe has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1924, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Rodolphe, 1935

1 in 418,000

Rodolphe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rodolphe: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rudolf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rodolphe means

Rodolphe is a form of Rudolf.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rodolphe is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʁo.dɔlf/ for Rodolphe.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rodolphe → Rudolf → Rudolf → Ruodolf. The family’s meaning is “fame, renown + wolf”, recorded in Old High German with the source elements ruod and wolf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rudolf and Rudolph.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Rodolphe is pronounced /ʁɔ.dɔlf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 146 boys were recorded with the name Rodolphe between 1911 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,947 in 1911.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rodolphe?

Rodolphe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1935
1 in 418,000
5 of 2,089,888 births
Among boys only
1 in 208,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1935
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,721 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rodolphe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1935 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,721 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rodolphe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rodolphes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rodolphe was born before 1925 — so the typical Rodolphe is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
61.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1920s — 61.0% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Rodolphe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (13)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,947
1911

Spellings of Rodolphe

Rodolphe is not the most common spelling — Rudolph is, with 99.7% against Rodolphe's 0.27%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rodolphe is used

Across 1910–2025, Rodolphe was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 128,110 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rodolphe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rodolphe around the world

Where Rodolphe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,215
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Rodolphe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,947
1911
Peak year
1924
13 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
1935
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rodolphe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rodolphe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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