Ralph

What Ralph means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ralph yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #96 vs #1,046 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ralph?

US: Steady: #1065 in 2015, #1046 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #122 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1918, when 8,162 boys got the name (#22 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 8,095 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 503 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,511 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.31 per 1,000 boys), WI (0.3 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.26 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ralph is #1046 in the US and #96 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ralph were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ralf0 US · 13 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Rawle

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Ralph

Boys

• Dustin#728possibly “Thor s stone”^*
• Roger#832“fame-spear”^*
• Ronald#637“advice + power”^*
• Robert#92“shining glory”^*
• Albert#614“noble + bright, famous”^*
• Frank#513Form of Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*

For a sister

• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025
• Robin#704Diminutive of Robert, meaning “shining glory”^*
• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ralph’s. Rank is US 2025.