Rudolph Boy Name

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The name Rudolph is of Germanic origin, and means famous wolf. The table below indicates the number of times the name Rudolph has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Rudolph**
Use of the Name Rudolph for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
51,557	10,694	2,092	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Rudolph has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Rudolph last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1992, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Rudolph**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	218	54
1881	186	62
1882	230	52
1883	196	61
1884	182	77
1885	189	70
1886	198	69
1887	178	71
1888	238	54
1889	165	83
1890	154	92
1891	187	68
1892	169	95
1893	149	101
1894	148	104
1895	147	106
1896	154	108
1897	147	109
1898	147	115
1899	153	100
1900	145	147
1901	172	87
1902	151	119
1903	153	121
1904	150	128
1905	156	132
1906	158	125
1907	162	135
1908	140	173
1909	148	172
1910	148	217
1911	155	216
1912	141	453
1913	137	566
1914	139	729
1915	135	975
1916	138	986
1917	141	943
1918	148	965
1919	168	808
1920	169	832
1921	157	969
1922	138	1,134
1923	128	1,305
1924	138	1,226
1925	136	1,249
1926	111	1,638
1927	111	1,675
1928	134	1,303
1929	140	1,216
1930	140	1,216
1931	147	1,096
1932	158	958
1933	167	848
1934	175	777
1935	181	743
1936	192	646
1937	197	627
1938	192	682
1939	210	584
1940	205	629
1941	218	603
1942	222	656
1943	222	661
1944	238	568
1945	234	575
1946	246	626
1947	250	693
1948	240	717
1949	224	816
1950	243	752
1951	228	827
1952	239	783
1953	255	734
1954	276	651
1955	279	654
1956	274	716
1957	319	571
1958	345	484
1959	366	459
1960	376	444
1961	393	408
1962	399	416
1963	396	410
1964	412	379
1965	426	329
1966	402	353
1967	453	276
1968	463	270
1969	485	251
1970	462	308
1971	484	273
1972	515	231
1973	536	215
1974	548	214
1975	589	188
1976	577	199
1977	624	181
1978	621	181
1979	617	192
1980	622	197
1981	661	169
1982	624	192
1983	645	175
1984	675	165
1985	705	157
1986	773	138
1987	735	154
1988	724	169
1989	729	184
1990	848	146
1991	942	127
1992	994	119
Totals:		51,557		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Rudolph as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Rudolph appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 113 times during the last 125 years.

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Rudolph Boy Name

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