as a First Name
From a Norman French name, Raulf, a contracted form of the Germanic personal name Radulf, derived from rād ‘counsel’ + wulf ‘wolf’. The spelling with -ph is due to classical influence in the 18th century.
| 211th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 291,509
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 387,260
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Ralph per capita
- 1921
- marked the height of its popularity
0.01%
99.99%
69%
55+
55+
27%
30-54
30-54
3%
13-29
13-29
2%
0-12
0-12
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