| Origin: | From Old High German words for fame and wolf | Tools: Add to favorites   Generate: Twitter-able text
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| Name info: About the name Rudolf in particular | | Gender: | male |  | Languages of use: | German, Scandinavian, Dutch, English, Czech, Polish |  | Short forms: | Dolf, Rudi, Rudy, Ruud |  | US 2021 rank: | not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below |  | Similarly written: | Ludolf, Adolf, Dolf, Gundolf, Randolf, Rodolfo, Rolf, Rudolph, Rumold     Details | 
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| Group info: About Rudolf, the group of names with the same origin as Rudolf | | Language of origin: | Old High German |  | Info about origin: | old Germanic two-element name |  |  | in the Middle Ages a popular name for rulers, e.g. Rudolf of Habsburg (13th century AD) |  | Words: | hruod = the fame  Old High German |  |  | wolf = the wolf  Old High German |  | Topics: | Two-element name |  | Variants' top ranks: | 17:Rudolf Austria 2015,  31:Rolf Switzerland 2013,  91:Rudy Belgium 2013,  115:Rudi Belgium 2013,  347:Rodolfo USA 1980-1989,  975:Rudolph USA 1990-1999 |  | Old/original forms: | Hruodolf Old High German, Rudolphus Latinized |  | Name variants: | Dolf, Rodolfo, Rodolphe, Roelof, Rolf, Rudi, Rudolf, Rudolph, Rudy, Ruedi, Ruodi, Ruud   Sortable list   Details | 
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