Rudolph
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Rudolph
Sure, he'd probably get a certain amount of red-nosed teasing around the holiday, but a boy named Rudolph could probably take it. Besides, he's got other, more distinguished namesakes -- the great ballet dancer Nureyev, silent screen Lothario Valentino and 9-11 Mayor Giuliani.
Softening short form Rudy has stood on its own long enough to have been consistently in the Top 1000 for as long as Social Security records have been tallied, while Rudolph has been off for decades. Can it be one of the German names for boysprime for a comeback?
The name was spread in England via the Anthony Hope novel Prisoner of Zenda, which set the fashion for romantic adventure stories in imaginary Balkan countries in the early 20th century.
Rudolph is also given to girls.
Pronounced ROO-dolf.
As of October 2026, Rudolph ranked #4231 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #110 in 1927.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,614 | 47 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,907 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #3,350 | 34 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,996 | 40 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #3,357 | 34 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,984 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #3,790 | 28 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #3,633 | 31 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #3,754 | 30 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,713 | 22 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,436 | 34 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #4,231 | 25 | — | 0 |
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Rudolph on lists
Famous Rudolphs
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King of France
- Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" GiulianiBoy
American lawyer and politician; 107th mayor of New York City
- Rudolph Valentino (born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella)Boy
Italian,born American silent film actor
- Rudolph IIBoy
Count of Habsburg
- Rudolph CartierBoy
Austrian director
- Rudolph Maté (born Rudolf Mayer)Boy
Polish,Hungarian,American cinematographer
- Rudolph SchildkrautBoy
Austrian actor
- Rudolph Malcolm WalkerBoy
Trinidadian,British actor
- Rudolph Arthur MarcusBoy
Canadian chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- (Charles) Rudolph BoysenBoy
American creator of the boysenberry
- Rudolph GanzBoy
Swiss,American conductor
- Rudolph Bernard IsleyBoy
American singer of The Isley Brothers
- Rudolph LewisBoy
English operatic bass,baritone
- Rudolph Cornelius WiedoeftBoy
American saxophonist
- (Franz) Rudolph WurlitzerBoy
German,American organ maker
- Rudolph John Chauncey FisherBoy
American physician and novelist
- (Karl) Rudolph KoenigBoy
German physicist
- Rudolph "Rudie" Gustav HassBoy
American creator of the Hass avocado
- Rudolph AckermannBoy
German publisher and bookseller
Rudolph in pop culture
- "Rudolph the RedBoy
Nosed Reindeer," one of Santa's reindeer, Christmas song, and TV special
- Rudolph 'Rudy' StieblitzBoy
aka Regular Sized Rudy, from "Bob's Burgers"
- Rudolph FentzBoy
main character in short story "I'm Scared" by Jack Finney and subject of a time,traveling urban legend
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character in "Harry Potter" universe
Variations & nicknames
More nicknames
- RudyBoy