Meaning and history
English form of Rudolf, brought from Germany in the 19th century and later used by Robert L. May in 1939 for his Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
20062006: 50 births, rank #2,449
2007: 45 births, rank #2,684
2008: 54 births, rank #2,374
2009: 35 births, rank #3,223
2010: 32 births, rank #3,377
20112011: 44 births, rank #2,699
2012: 43 births, rank #2,772
2013: 36 births, rank #3,060
2014: 47 births, rank #2,582
2015: 41 births, rank #2,864
20162016: 34 births, rank #3,293
2017: 40 births, rank #2,951
2018: 34 births, rank #3,301
2019: 41 births, rank #2,943
2020: 28 births, rank #3,734
20212021: 31 births, rank #3,582
2022: 30 births, rank #3,691
2023: 22 births, rank #4,610
2024: 34 births, rank #3,394
20252025: 25 births, rank #4,139
Rudolph moved from #928 to #994 for boys between 1991 and 1992. Its highest annual birth count came in 1927, with 1,690 births.