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Rupert

#3,830 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Robert

Rupert has been given to 5,611 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,830 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 156 recorded.

Babies named Rupert, 2025

1 in 114,000

Rupert over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rupert: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Robert

Germanic languages and Middle High German

What Rupert means

Rupert is a form of Robert.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Rupert is a form of Robert. Robert has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rupert (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Rupert is used in English and German. Its origins include Germanic languages and Middle High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Robert.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Rupert is pronounced /ˈɹupɚt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,595 boys were recorded with the name Rupert between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 156 in 1920; its best national rank was #413 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,245 in 2020 to #3,830 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,520 in 2015 to #3,830 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Rupert between 1920 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1930; its best national rank was #4,483 in 1930.

How common is Rupert?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,830
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rupert 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 2025 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rupert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruperts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rupert was born before 1933 — so the typical Rupert is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,773
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1920s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (1,185).

Is Rupert 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
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+415
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+690
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.6%
Peak was 1920 (156)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#413
1899

Spellings of Rupert

Rupert is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 98.6% against Rupert's 0.11%.

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 Rupert is used

Across 1910–2025, Rupert was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 89,428 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 16,667
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8West Virginia1 in 50,000

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

Rupert around the world

Where Rupert 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
    1996–2025
    #79
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2025
    #344
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1968–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1911–1931
    #990
    in 1931
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #239
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rupert

People whose public names include Rupert, 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.

Rupert in other languages

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

RobertRoopeRupertusRuprechtRupprecht

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

Rupert by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,830
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 415
Best rank ever
#413
1899
Peak year
1920
156 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,595
Count in 2025
29

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,483
1930
Peak year
1930
6 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rupert

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

LambertHobertEvertElbertCalvertRuppertHubertRupertoWilbertEgbertDelbertHebertHilbertBertNorbertLevertHalbertAdelbertRubertMertGilbertColbertTalbertTolbert

Names with a curve like Rupert

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

GranvilleJuniusWaltonJewelElwinJewellHarlandVerneOranWaldoArlieOttis

Sibling names for Rupert

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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