Rudolph

Where Rudolph comes from

Borrowed from German Rudolph, Rudolf (compare Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwulfaz).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rudolph
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Rudolph through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #216 among boys, with 54 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1927
    Peak, #110
    1,690 babies named Rudolph, the most in any year.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #175.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Rudolph in Wikidata.

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.