Rodolfo

Where Rodolfo comes from

Rodolfo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    Rodolfo Graziani born
    Italian general
  2. 1902
    First appearance
    #1,137 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1956
    Rodolfo Rodríguez born
    Uruguayan footballer
  4. 1981
    Peak, #311
    610 babies named Rodolfo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #755.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rodolfo Graziani · Italian general, 1882–1955
  • Rodolfo Rodríguez · Uruguayan footballer, born 1956
  • Rodolfo Orlandini · Argentine footballer, 1905–1990
  • Rodolfo Neri Vela · Mexican astronaut, born 1952
  • Rodolfo Arruabarrena · Argentine footballer and manager, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.