🔥Rupert

German variation of Robert
"bright fame"

Rupert Origin and Meaning

The name Rupert is a boy's name of German origin meaning "bright fame".

Rupert is a charming-yet-manly name long more popular in Britain (where it's attached to a beloved cartoon bear) than in the U.S. Yet we can see Rupert as a more stylish, modern way to honor an ancestral Robert.

Rupert has been more visible in this country of late via Rupert Grint, portrayer of Harry Potter's Ron Weasley and the character Rupert Giles, mentor of Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as actors Rupert Everett and Rupert Graves--not to mention media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Off the US popularity lists since the early fifties, Rupert ranks high on Nameberry--at Number 170.

# 910 in the US

Rupert Rank in US Top 1000

# 295 on Nameberry

Rupert Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Rupert Popularity

Famous People Named Rupert

  • Rupert
    King of Germany
  • Saint Rupert of Salzburg
    Bishop of Worms, Austria
  • Rupert Francis Young
    English actor
  • (Keith) Rupert Murdoch
    Australian,American media mogul
  • Rupert James Hector Everett
    English actor
  • Rupert Graves
    English actor
  • Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint
    English actor
  • Rupert William Penry
    Jones, English actor
  • Rupert William Anthony Friend
    English actor
  • Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John Henry
    Prince of Löwenstein,Wertheim,Freudenberg, German financial manager of The Rolling Stones
  • Rupert von Trapp
    son of Georg and Maria von Trapp of "Sound of Music" fame
  • Rupert
    Prince of the Rhine, cavalry commander during the English Civil War
  • Rupert Boneham
    American reality TV contestant ("Survivor")
  • Rupert Chawner Brooke
    English WWI poet
  • Rupert Atkinson
    brother of English actor Rowan Atkinson
  • (Alfred) Rupert Sheldrake
    English parapsychology author
  • Rupert Davies
    English actor
  • Rupert Evans
    English actor
  • Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein)
    English singer,songwriter
  • Rupert Miles Sanders
    English film director

Rupert in Pop Culture

  • Rupert Bear
    English cartoon character
  • Rupert of Hentzau
    central character in "The Prisoner of Zenda"
  • Rupert Psmith aka Ronald Eustace Psmith
    dandyish Old Etonian (expelled) flaneur and social escapologist in the works of P.G. Wodehouse
  • Rupert "Ru" Keith
    Millie's pensive younger brother in "A Life of Faith" series
  • Rupert Clinton
    main character in G. A. Henty's, The Dash for Khartoum
  • Rupert Burns
    character from movie "Bicentennial Man"
  • Rupert
    Stewie's teddy bear on TV's "Family Guy"
  • Rupert Kirke
    Rupert Lemon, Rupert Xavier, and Rupert Pierpoint, part of boy band The Ruperts; characters from Moldavsky’s “Kill The Boy Band.”
  • Rupert Holliday
    main character in G. A. Henty's, A Cornet of Horse
  • Rupert Giles
    character on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Rupert Thorne
    character in DC Universe
  • Rupert
    squirrel in the 1950 Christmas film The Great Rupert
  • Rupert Campbell
    Black, character in the Rutshire Chronicles series by Jilly Cooper
  • Rupert T. Waxflatter
    character in the film Young Sherlock Holmes
  • Rupert Pupkin
    the anti,hero in the 1983 film The King of Comedy
  • Rupert Campion
    the son of Albert Campion in Margery Allingham's series
  • Rupert Birkin
    character in "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence