Ralfs
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ralfs is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 424◐
- ISIceland1 in 35K
- EEEstonia1 in 193K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 54 ●
- 1 in 424 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
1.3K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #117 | 4,436△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 424 | 4.5K | Ralfs | 54 |
| FI Finland | — | 90 | 1 rec. | — | 75 | Ralfs | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 55 | 24 rec. | — | listed | Ralfs | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 26 | — | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | 0 rec. | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 24 | 17 rec. | — | 155 | Ralfs | 18 |
| EE Estonia | — | 22 | 7 rec. | — | 12 | Ralfs | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 12 rec. | — | 186 | Ralfs | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | 14 | 14 rec. | — | — | Ralfs | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 11 | — | 1 in 3.5M | 11 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | — | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Ralfs | 6 |
Roughly 4.4K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 424). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian6K76%
- English3004%
- Estonian2133%
- Norwegian Bokmål1862%
- German1672%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 5,964 | 76% |
| English | 300 | 4% |
| Estonian | 213 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 186 | 2% |
| German | 167 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 21 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 8 years between 2013–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ralfs Nemirob. 1981LVLatvian politician
- Ralfs Freibergsb. 1991LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Ralfs Eilandsb. 1993LVLatvian musician
- Ralfs Grīnbergsb. 1995LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Ralfs Bērziņšb. 1997LVLatvian bobsledder
- Ralfs Džeriņšb. 1997LVassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.5K | #117 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.4K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 186 | #5,035 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 105 | #144,908 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 75 | #6,127 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #3,727 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,209 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ralfs?
- We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Ralfs (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ralfs have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.4 thousand people bear Ralfs in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ralfs.
- Where is Ralfs most common?
- Ralfs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 424 people carrying it.
- How common is Ralfs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Ralfs is the 117th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Ralfs a male or female name?
- Ralfs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ralfs mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ralfsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ralfs” — the 117th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.