Ralphie

What Ralphie means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #244 vs #7,679 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ralphie?

US: Rising: up from #10644 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #438 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 10 boys got the name (#7679 that year). First in the US records in 1958.

How common

• About 1 in 170,808 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,367 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 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.

US vs UK

Ralphie is #7679 in the US and #244 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 Ralphie were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ralfie0 US · 3 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.

If you like Ralphie

Boys

• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Colter#157Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #157 vs #1,466 in 2025
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Wesley#52“west + wood, clearing”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*

For a sister

• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*
• Scottie#126Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,533 in 2015, #126 in 2025
• Annie#182Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 7,476 babies; 1,690 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ralphie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.