Rudolph
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rudolph is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’.
- GYGuyana1 in 785◐
- JMJamaica1 in 3.3K
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈93K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 369 ●
- 1 in 226 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
602K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Rudolf in CH Switzerland.
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●
from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 47,420 | 0 rec. | 1 in 226 | 47K | — | 1 |
| US United States | #881 | 18,757 | 485K rec. | 1 in 18K | 20K | Rudolph | 369 |
| GB United Kingdom | #976 | 13,884 | 21K rec. | — | — | Rudolph | 89 |
| PL Poland | — | 6,633△ | 282 rec. | 1 in 5.8K | 6.6K | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | #586 | 6,362 | 7.8K rec. | — | — | Rudolph | 62 |
| CA Canada | — | 5,942 | 9.4K rec. | — | 2 | Rudolph | 87 |
| HU Hungary | — | 5,506△ | 316 rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 5.5K | Rudolph | 9 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,764 | 7.6K rec. | — | 3 | Rudolph | 89 |
| DE Germany | — | 3,719 | 34K rec. | — | — | Rudolph | 180 |
| NL Netherlands | #969 | 3,610△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 19K | Rudolph | 42 |
| HR Croatia | — | 3,290△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 3.3K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,778△ | 221 rec. | 1 in 3.7K | 2.8K | Rudolph | 19 |
Roughly 47K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 226). 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●
- English343K75%
- German36K8%
- Spanish18K4%
- French7.9K2%
- Dutch6.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 343,271 | 75% |
| German | 36,451 | 8% |
| Spanish | 17,607 | 4% |
| French | 7,926 | 2% |
| Dutch | 6,644 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rudolph is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, alter deutscher männl. Vom. (ahd. hruod »Ruhm« + ahd. wolf »Wolf«). Der Name war schon im
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, Teutonic; a famous wolf
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1880 | 54 |
| 1881 | 62 |
| 1882 | 52 |
| 1883 | 61 |
| 1884 | 77 |
| 1885 | 70 |
| 1886 | 68 |
| 1887 | 71 |
| 1888 | 54 |
| 1889 | 83 |
| 1890 | 92 |
| 1891 | 68 |
| 1892 | 95 |
| 1893 | 101 |
| 1894 | 104 |
| 1895 | 106 |
| 1896 | 108 |
| 1897 | 109 |
| 1898 | 115 |
| 1899 | 100 |
| 1900 | 147 |
| 1901 | 87 |
| 1902 | 119 |
| 1903 | 120 |
| 1904 | 128 |
| 1905 | 132 |
| 1906 | 125 |
| 1907 | 135 |
| 1908 | 173 |
| 1909 | 173 |
| 1910 | 218 |
| 1911 | 217 |
| 1912 | 453 |
| 1913 | 565 |
| 1914 | 732 |
| 1915 | 974 |
| 1916 | 988 |
| 1917 | 946 |
| 1918 | 962 |
| 1919 | 802 |
| 1920 | 830 |
| 1921 | 960 |
| 1922 | 1,145 |
| 1923 | 1,303 |
| 1924 | 1,229 |
| 1925 | 1,240 |
| 1926 | 1,636 |
| 1927 | 1,690 |
| 1928 | 1,308 |
| 1929 | 1,220 |
| 1930 | 1,219 |
| 1931 | 1,102 |
| 1932 | 960 |
| 1933 | 847 |
| 1934 | 779 |
| 1935 | 745 |
| 1936 | 647 |
| 1937 | 630 |
| 1938 | 684 |
| 1939 | 587 |
| 1940 | 622 |
| 1941 | 600 |
| 1942 | 658 |
| 1943 | 664 |
| 1944 | 573 |
| 1945 | 574 |
| 1946 | 628 |
| 1947 | 696 |
| 1948 | 716 |
| 1949 | 822 |
| 1950 | 756 |
| 1951 | 831 |
| 1952 | 777 |
| 1953 | 745 |
| 1954 | 653 |
| 1955 | 653 |
| 1956 | 718 |
| 1957 | 572 |
| 1958 | 489 |
| 1959 | 458 |
| 1960 | 442 |
| 1961 | 414 |
| 1962 | 412 |
| 1963 | 412 |
| 1964 | 378 |
| 1965 | 328 |
| 1966 | 352 |
| 1967 | 276 |
| 1968 | 271 |
| 1969 | 250 |
| 1970 | 309 |
| 1971 | 275 |
| 1972 | 231 |
| 1973 | 215 |
| 1974 | 218 |
| 1975 | 188 |
| 1976 | 198 |
| 1977 | 181 |
| 1978 | 182 |
| 1979 | 189 |
| 1980 | 196 |
| 1981 | 170 |
| 1982 | 192 |
| 1983 | 175 |
| 1984 | 165 |
| 1985 | 157 |
| 1986 | 139 |
| 1987 | 156 |
| 1988 | 170 |
| 1989 | 183 |
| 1990 | 146 |
| 1991 | 131 |
| 1992 | 119 |
| 1993 | 108 |
| 1994 | 105 |
| 1995 | 105 |
| 1996 | 109 |
| 1997 | 76 |
| 1998 | 92 |
| 1999 | 63 |
| 2000 | 72 |
| 2001 | 82 |
| 2002 | 69 |
| 2003 | 65 |
| 2004 | 59 |
| 2005 | 58 |
| 2006 | 50 |
| 2007 | 45 |
| 2008 | 54 |
| 2009 | 35 |
| 2010 | 32 |
| 2011 | 44 |
| 2012 | 43 |
| 2013 | 36 |
| 2014 | 47 |
| 2015 | 41 |
| 2016 | 34 |
| 2017 | 40 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 41 |
| 2020 | 28 |
| 2021 | 31 |
| 2022 | 30 |
| 2023 | 22 |
| 2024 | 34 |
| 2025 | 25 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rudolph Snelliusb. 1546NLDutch linguist and mathematician
- Rodolfo Amando Philippib. 1808CLnot in their usual nameGerman-Chilean naturalist and palaeontologist (1808-1904)
- Eduard Davidb. 1863DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1863-1930)
- Rudolph Dirksb. 1877DEcartoonist (1877–1968)
- Ferde Groféb. 1892USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist (1892–1972)
- Rudolph Matéb. 1898USPolish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and producer (1898–1964)
- Gerald Fordb. 1913USnot in their usual namepresident of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
- Rudolph A. Marcusb. 1923CACanadian-American chemist (1923-2026)
- Rudy Giulianib. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican attorney and politician (born 1944)
- Prince Ernst August of Hanoverb. 1983DEnot in their usual nameHanoverian prince (born 1983)
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 68 sources across 43 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 333 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rudolph?
- We estimate roughly 93 thousand people bear Rudolph (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rudolph have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 47 thousand people bear Rudolph in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Rudolph most common?
- Rudolph is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 226 people carrying it.
- How common is Rudolph compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Rudolph is the 14th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Rudolph a male or female name?
- Rudolph 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 Rudolph mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rudolph” — the 14th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.