Rudolpho
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rudolpho has been given to 385 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1977, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Rudolpho, 2006
1 in 659,000
Rudolpho over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rudolpho?
Rudolpho had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 659,000
- 6 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 343,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 457,035 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rudolpho sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rudolpho. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rudolphos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rudolpho was born before 1969 — so the typical Rudolpho is around 56 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 23.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 312
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (89).
Is Rudolpho 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (13)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.1% average annual change
Spellings of Rudolpho
Rudolpho is not the most common spelling — Rudolph is, with 95.3% against Rudolpho's 0.69%.
Where Rudolpho is used
Across 1910–2025, Rudolpho was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 369,833 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Rudolpho has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rudolpho by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rudolpho
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rudolpho
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.