Rufus

Where Rufus comes from

From Latin rūfus (“red”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Rufus
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #88 among boys with 163 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1967
    Rufus Sewell born
    English actor
  3. 1973
    Rufus Wainwright born
    American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
  4. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,214.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, used since the seventeenth century.
Namesakes
  • Rufus Wainwright · American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer, born 1973
  • Rufus Sewell · English actor, born 1967
  • Rufus King · American Founding Father, 1755–1827
  • Rufus Wilmot Griswold · American editor, literary critic, anthologist, and writer, 1815–1857
  • Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading · British politician, 1860–1935

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.