Rupert
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Rupert is also given to girls.
Pronounced ROO-purt.
As of October 2026, Rupert ranked #3831 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #413 in 1899, Nameberry popularity #297.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #4,519 | 22 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #3,964 | 27 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #4,613 | 22 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #4,248 | 24 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #4,102 | 26 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,192 | 26 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,863 | 29 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,831 | 29 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Rupert for boys
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Rupert on lists
Famous Ruperts
- RupertBoy
King of Germany
- Saint Rupert of SalzburgBoy
Bishop of Worms, Austria
- Rupert Francis YoungBoy
English actor
- (Keith) Rupert MurdochBoy
Australian,American media mogul
- Rupert James Hector EverettBoy
English actor
- Rupert GravesBoy
English actor
- Rupert Alexander Lloyd GrintBoy
English actor
- Rupert William PenryBoy
Jones, English actor
- Rupert William Anthony FriendBoy
English actor
- Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John HenryBoy
Prince of Löwenstein,Wertheim,Freudenberg, German financial manager of The Rolling Stones
- Rupert von TrappBoy
son of Georg and Maria von Trapp of "Sound of Music" fame
- RupertBoy
Prince of the Rhine, cavalry commander during the English Civil War
- Rupert BonehamBoy
American reality TV contestant ("Survivor")
- Rupert Chawner BrookeBoy
English WWI poet
- Rupert AtkinsonBoy
brother of English actor Rowan Atkinson
- (Alfred) Rupert SheldrakeBoy
English parapsychology author
- Rupert DaviesBoy
English actor
- Rupert EvansBoy
English actor
- Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein)Boy
English singer,songwriter
- Rupert Miles SandersBoy
English film director
Rupert in pop culture
- Rupert BearBoy
English cartoon character
- Rupert of HentzauBoy
central character in "The Prisoner of Zenda"
- Rupert Psmith aka Ronald Eustace PsmithBoy
dandyish Old Etonian (expelled) flaneur and social escapologist in the works of P.G. Wodehouse
- Rupert "Ru" KeithBoy
Millie's pensive younger brother in "A Life of Faith" series
- Rupert ClintonBoy
main character in G. A. Henty's, The Dash for Khartoum
- Rupert BurnsBoy
character from movie "Bicentennial Man"
- RupertBoy
Stewie's teddy bear on TV's "Family Guy"
- Rupert KirkeBoy
Rupert Lemon, Rupert Xavier, and Rupert Pierpoint, part of boy band The Ruperts; characters from Moldavsky’s “Kill The Boy Band.”
- Rupert HollidayBoy
main character in G. A. Henty's, A Cornet of Horse
- Rupert GilesBoy
character on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Rupert ThorneBoy
character in DC Universe
- RupertBoy
squirrel in the 1950 Christmas film The Great Rupert
- Rupert CampbellBoy
Black, character in the Rutshire Chronicles series by Jilly Cooper
- Rupert T. WaxflatterBoy
character in the film Young Sherlock Holmes
- Rupert PupkinBoy
the anti,hero in the 1983 film The King of Comedy
- Rupert CampionBoy
the son of Albert Campion in Margery Allingham's series
- Rupert BirkinBoy
character in "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence