Ralfs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ralfs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 424(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 35K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 424 (inferred from the name graph)
4,436 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ralfs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #148 | 4,436 | 1 in 424 | 4.5K | Ralfs | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 88 | Ralfs | 24 |
| DK Denmark | — | 26 | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 25 | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 277K | 186 | Ralfs | 7 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 12 | Ralfs | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
4,436 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ralfs Nemirob. 1981LVLatvian politician
- Ralfs Freibergsb. 1991LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Ralfs Eilandsb. 1993LVLatvian musician
- Ralfs Grīnbergsb. 1995LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Ralfs Bērziņšb. 1997LVLatvian bobsledder
- Ralfs Džeriņšb. 1997LVassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.5K | #117 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.4K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 186 | #5,035 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #3,658 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,209 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #1,990 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ralfs mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Ralfs a male or female name?
- Ralfs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ralfs have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Ralfs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ralfs.
- Where is Ralfs most common?
- Ralfs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 424 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ralfs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 4,436 people named Ralfs, about 1 in 424 residents.
- How common is Ralfs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Ralfs is the 148th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ralfsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ralfs” — the 148th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.