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Rupa

Girls' name

Shape, form

Rupa has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1978, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Rupa, 1987

1 in 451,000

Rupa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rupa: meaning, origin, and history

Shape, form

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rupa means

Rupa means “shape, form”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rupa is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Nepali.

Origin, language, and formation

Rupa is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 153 girls were recorded with the name Rupa between 1969 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,267 in 1974.

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 Rupa?

Rupa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987
1 in 451,000
8 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only
1 in 217,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
312,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rupa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 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 312,357 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rupa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rupas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rupa was born before 1980 — so the typical Rupa is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Rupa 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 1978 (12)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,267
1974

Spellings of Rupa

Rupa is not the most common spelling — Ruth is, with 38.4% against Rupa's <0.01%.

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 Rupa is used

Across 1910–2025, Rupa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Rupa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rupa around the world

Where Rupa 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rupa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,267
1974
Peak year
1978
12 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
153
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rupa

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

RupalKrupaRupaliRupertaRupertRupinder

Sibling names for Rupa

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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