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Ralph

Pronounced /ˈɹælf/

Rank in 2024
#1,148
Born in 2024
182
Peak year
1921 · #23
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 182 boys were named Ralph, about 1 in every 9,425.
  • It peaked in 1921 with 8,860 babies, ranked #23.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 413,799 boys have been named Ralph since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ralph per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 7.8
    Greatest
  2. 5.7
    Silent
  3. 2.9
    Boomers
  4. 1.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.3
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 129,575 babies, 7.75 per 1,000. Silent: 116,958 babies, 5.66 per 1,000. Boomers: 108,963 babies, 2.90 per 1,000. Gen X: 29,096 babies, 1.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,395 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,412 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,284 babies, 0.11 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Radulf, from Old English Rǣdwulf (also as Raulf), from Proto-West Germanic *Rādawulf, from Proto-Germanic *Rēdawulfaz. Reinforced by similar forms brought to England, e.g. Old Norse Ráðúlfr, then in the Norman form Old French Radulf, Radulph. For the sense relating to vomiting, see ralph.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈɹælf/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ralph, CC BY-SA 4.0.