# Rodolfo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rodolfo/  
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 | 33,856 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 33,773 / 83 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | 9,280 |
| 1978 | 6 | 9,437 |
| 1979 | 5 | 11,480 |
| 1980 | 9 | 7,248 |
| 1982 | 5 | 11,857 |
| 1984 | 5 | 11,723 |
| 1986 | 8 | 8,310 |
| 1987 | 7 | 9,557 |
| 1988 | 8 | 9,034 |
| 1989 | 5 | 13,979 |
| 1990 | 6 | 12,545 |
| 1992 | 7 | 11,419 |
| 1993 | 7 | 11,499 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 258 | 836 |
| 2012 | 221 | 929 |
| 2013 | 228 | 913 |
| 2014 | 225 | 937 |
| 2015 | 228 | 931 |
| 2016 | 195 | 1,027 |
| 2017 | 172 | 1,120 |
| 2018 | 183 | 1,084 |
| 2019 | 155 | 1,229 |
| 2020 | 142 | 1,287 |
| 2021 | 138 | 1,346 |
| 2022 | 138 | 1,360 |
| 2023 | 131 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 125 | 1,456 |
| 2025 | 121 | 1,474 |

## People named Rodolfo

- Rodolfo Orlandini, Argentine footballer (1905-1990)
- Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1975)
- Rodolfo Bodipo, Equatorial Guinean association football player and manager and politician
- Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Catholic cardinal (1932-2012)
- Rodolfo Walsh, Argentine journalist and writer (1927–1977)
- Rodolfo Gustavo da Paixão, Brazilian politician, poet
- Rodolfo Amoedo, Brazilian painter, draftsman, teacher and decorator (1857–1941)
- Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso, Argentine association football player
- Rodolfo Terlizzi, fencer (1896–1971)
- Rodolfo Fischer, Argentine footballer (1944–2020)
- Rodolfo Dubó, Chilean footballer
- Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, Colombian politician (1945–2024)

## 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.