Rupert
About Rupert
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.
As of October 2026, Rupert ranked #3831 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #413 in 1899, Nameberry popularity #473.
Editor's take: The name Rupert is a boy's name of German origin meaning "bright fame".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | #4,519 | 22 | 11.5 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,964 | 27 | 14.6 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | #4,613 | 22 | 12.3 |
| 2020 | #4,248 | 24 | 13.9 |
| 2021 | #4,102 | 26 | 14.9 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,192 | 26 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | #3,863 | 29 | 16.8 |
| 2025 | #3,831 | 29 | 17 |
World rankings
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Famous Ruperts
- 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