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Rudolfo

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rudolfo has been given to 2,263 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1955, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Rudolfo, 2019

1 in 694,000

Rudolfo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rudolfo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rudolfo means

Rudolfo is a given name.

The naming story behind Rudolfo

Wikidata records Rudolfo as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q28798239, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,263 boys were recorded with the name Rudolfo between 1914 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1955; its best national rank was #891 in 1955.

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.

How common is Rudolfo?

Rudolfo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rudolfo 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rudolfo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rudolfos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rudolfo was born before 1959 — so the typical Rudolfo is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,633
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (505).

Is Rudolfo 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 1955 (70)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#891
1955

Spellings of Rudolfo

Rudolfo is not the most common spelling — Rudolph is, with 49.2% against Rudolfo's 2.1%.

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 Rudolfo is used

Across 1910–2025, Rudolfo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 37,020 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —

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. Rudolfo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Rudolfo

People whose public names include Rudolfo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rudolfo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rudolfo. Linked forms have their own page here.

RudolfRodulfo

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rudolfo 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
#891
1955
Peak year
1955
70 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
2,263
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rudolfo

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

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Names with a curve like Rudolfo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rudolfo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rudolfo

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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