# Rupert (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rupert/  
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 | /ˈɹupɚt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,611 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,595 / 16 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,156, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 5 | 5,641 |
| 1922 | 5 | 5,667 |
| 1930 | 6 | 4,485 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | 9,438 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,577 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,546 |
| 2014 | 16 | 5,667 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,522 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,998 |
| 2017 | 27 | 3,964 |
| 2018 | 13 | 6,635 |
| 2019 | 22 | 4,613 |
| 2020 | 24 | 4,249 |
| 2021 | 26 | 4,104 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,392 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,194 |
| 2024 | 29 | 3,878 |
| 2025 | 29 | 3,831 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 156 | 287 |
| 2012 | 176 | 268 |
| 2013 | 249 | 213 |
| 2014 | 345 | 166 |
| 2015 | 396 | 143 |
| 2016 | 438 | 136 |
| 2017 | 456 | 127 |
| 2018 | 597 | 107 |
| 2019 | 621 | 102 |
| 2020 | 568 | 106 |
| 2021 | 631 | 93 |
| 2022 | 670 | 84 |
| 2023 | 639 | 80 |
| 2024 | 637 | 83 |
| 2025 | 670 | 79 |

## People named Rupert

- Rupert Murdoch, American businessman
- Rupert Grint, English actor (born 1988)
- Rupert Everett, British actor
- Rupert Brooke, English poet (1887–1915)
- Rupert Friend, British actor
- Rupert Graves, English film, television, and theatre actor
- Rupert Sheldrake, English biochemist, author and parapsychological researcher (*1942)
- Rupert of Salzburg, Frankish bishop
- Rupert Penry-Jones, British actor
- Rupert Evans, British actor
- Rupert Crosse, American actor (1927-1973)
- Rupert Hollaus, Austrian motorcycle racer (1931–1954)

## 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.