# Ralphie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ralphie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 134 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 134 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,203, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | 5,812 |
| 1975 | 6 | 5,304 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,798 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,599 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,034 |
| 1983 | 6 | 6,046 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,280 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,969 |
| 2001 | 9 | 7,381 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,764 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,600 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,676 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,552 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,668 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,090 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 878 |
| 2012 | 42 | 765 |
| 2013 | 63 | 565 |
| 2014 | 61 | 583 |
| 2015 | 93 | 438 |
| 2016 | 100 | 420 |
| 2017 | 174 | 288 |
| 2018 | 198 | 258 |
| 2019 | 193 | 254 |
| 2020 | 178 | 262 |
| 2021 | 172 | 266 |
| 2022 | 217 | 226 |
| 2023 | 192 | 248 |
| 2024 | 178 | 263 |
| 2025 | 199 | 244 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.