🔥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.

Rupert Rank in US Top 1000

# 910 in the US

Rupert Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 366 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Rupert

• 366 Nameberry 2025
• 84 England 2024

20 Names Similar to Rupert

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• Ernest
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• Wilbur
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• Edmund
• Edgar
• Albert
• Clarence
• Ralph
• Linus
• Barnaby
• Angus
• Benedict
• Francis
• Claude
• Frederick
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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

The name 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