Origin: | From Old High German words for counsel, advice, advisor and wolf | Tools: Add to favorites Generate: Twitter-able text SMS text Compare to: Behind the Name Search with: Wikipedia NNDB IMDb Google |
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Name info: About the name Ralph in particular | Gender: | male |
Languages of use: | English |
Topics: | Asteroid 5051 Ralph, discovered 1984 |
US 2021 rank: | not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below |
Similarly written: | Ralf, Ralfs, Salih Details |
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Group info: About Ralf, the group of names with the same origin as Ralph | Language of origin: | Old High German |
Info about origin: | old Germanic two-element name |
| Ralf is a shortened version of Radulf |
Words: | rat = the counsel, the advice, the advisor Old High German |
| wolf = the wolf Old High German |
Topics: | Two-element name |
Variants' top ranks: | 4:Ralfs Latvia 2014, 10:Raúl Cuba 2010, 31:Raul Romania 2009, 42:Ralf Germany 2005, 60:Ralph England+Wales 1914, 388:Raoul Switzerland 1997 |
Old/original forms: | Radolf Old High German, Radulf Old High German, Raedwulf Old English |
Name variants: | Ralf, Ralfs, Ralph, Raoul, Raul, Raúl Sortable list Details |
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Popularity: Popularity lists that contain the name Ralph | Series | Graph | Rankings |
England+Wales | Graph | 2023 98, 2022 86, 2021 85, 2020 95, 2019 81, 2018 88, 2017 98 |
England+Wales decades | Graph | 1944 90, 1934 76, 1924 64, 1914 60, 1904 66 |
Switzerland | | 1997 468 |
USA decades | Graph | 1990-1999 445, 1980-1989 270, 1970-1979 171, 1960-1969 105 |
USA prevalence | | 1990 62 |
USA yearly | Graph | 2018 949, 2016 989, 2011 950, 2010 968, 2009 953, 2008 860, 2007 867, 2006 760, 2005 770, 2004 710, 2003 657, 2002 630, 2001 610, 2000 584, 1999 570, 1998 584, 1997 544, 1996 503, 1995 502, 1994 489, 1993 428 |
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