Rudolph
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rudolph is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 18th most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 785(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 5.1K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rudolph itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- 1 in 785 (inferred from the name graph)
47,420 named Rudolf
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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)
from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rudolph is read(measured from records)
Rudolph is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English81%
from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Teutonic; a famous wolf
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- German5.6%
alter deutscher männl. Vom. (ahd. hruod »Ruhm« + ahd. wolf »Wolf«). Der Name war schon im
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rudolph 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 47,420as Rudolf | 1 in 226 | 47K | — | 1 |
| US United States | #870 | 18,795 | 1 in 18K | 20K | Rudolph | 418 |
| ZA South Africa | #596 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Rudolph | 65 |
| HU Hungary | — | 5,506as Rudolf | 1 in 1.8K | 5.5K | Rudolph | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rudolph | 115 |
| HR Croatia | — | 3,290as Rudolf | 1 in 1.3K | 3.3K | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,950as Rudolf | 1 in 1.1K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | #18 | 956 | 1 in 785 | 956 | Rudolph | 6 |
47,420 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Rudolph Snelliusb. 1546NLDutch linguist and mathematician
- Rodolfo Amando Philippib. 1808CLnot in their usual nameGerman-Chilean naturalist and palaeontologist (1808-1904)
- Eduard Davidb. 1863DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1863-1930)
- Rudolph Dirksb. 1877DEcartoonist (1877–1968)
- Ferde Groféb. 1892USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist (1892–1972)
- Rudolph Matéb. 1898USPolish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and producer (1898–1964)
- Gerald Fordb. 1913USnot in their usual namepresident of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
- Rudolph A. Marcusb. 1923CACanadian-American chemist (1923-2026)
- Rudy Giulianib. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican attorney and politician (born 1944)
- Prince Ernst August of Hanoverb. 1983DEnot in their usual nameHanoverian prince (born 1983)
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 74 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19K | #1,666 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 956 | #57 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #1,666 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 6 | — |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Rudolph mean, and where does it come from?
- from Germanic Rudolf, literally ‘fame-wolf’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Rudolph?
- In the etymology graph, Rodolfo, Rudolf and Rolf are forms of the same name in other languages; Rudy is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Rudolph have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 47 thousand people named Rudolf, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rudolph most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rudolph is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 785 people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Rudolph a male or female name?
- Rudolph 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.
- How common is the name Rudolph?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,795 people named Rudolph in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Rudolph compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Rudolph is the 18th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rudolphThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Rudolph” — the 18th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.