Rupert
Rupert was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,830 among boys’ names; 5,611 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Rupert and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 30 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rupert by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rupert mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rupert is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
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.
/ˈɹupɚt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rupert?
#3,830 among boys’ names, 2025
Rupert rose from #4,520 in 2015 to #3,830 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 17.0 per million.
161 babies in 1920, the peak
Rupert peaked in 1920, when 161 babies were given it (156 boys, #487 among boys’ names). The 29 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,830 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,876 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,190 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,388 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,245 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,609 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,631 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,993 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,520 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,663 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,541 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,571 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,431 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,975 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,694 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,103 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,485 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,396 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,815 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,438 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,134 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,334 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,033 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,513 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,581 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,397 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,207 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,348 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,429 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,848 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,689 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,924 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,758 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,715 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,563 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,245 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,132 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,802 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 25 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,113 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,919 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,854 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 23 | #1,883 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 26 | #1,634 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,819 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 30 | #1,405 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,717 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 40 | #1,220 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 33 | #1,381 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,213 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,198 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,256 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,095 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,356 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,394 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,098 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,296 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,031 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,210 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,134 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 62 | #902 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 61 | #910 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 54 | #944 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #955 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 70 | #817 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 51 | #1,010 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,028 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 62 | #789 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 48 | #932 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 66 | #814 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 60 | #849 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 58 | #838 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 56 | #849 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 53 | #842 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 61 | #797 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 54 | #834 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 93 | #605 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 77 | #690 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 68 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 72 | #716 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 82 | #676 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 93 | #620 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 79 | #703 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 86 | #665 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 98 | #620 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 104 | #615 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 99 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1925 | 122 | #561 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 108 | #615 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 141 | #512 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 132 | #549 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 139 | #531 | 0.13 |
| 1920 | 156 | #487 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 113 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 138 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 117 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 107 | #554 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 117 | #517 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 91 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1913 | 66 | #535 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 69 | #473 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 30 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1910 | 33 | #491 | 0.17 |
| 1909 | 21 | #587 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 17 | #652 | 0.11 |
| 1907 | 21 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 21 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 20 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 20 | #490 | 0.16 |
| 1903 | 12 | #689 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 9 | #850 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 13 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 27 | #441 | 0.18 |
| 1899 | 21 | #413 | 0.20 |
| 1898 | 22 | #432 | 0.18 |
| 1897 | 17 | #491 | 0.15 |
| 1896 | 20 | #456 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 15 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 19 | #460 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 15 | #501 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 16 | #518 | 0.13 |
| 1891 | 6 | #942 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 16 | #482 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 11 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 11 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 12 | #538 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 11 | #596 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 11 | #599 | 0.10 |
| 1884 | 15 | #501 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 9 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 11 | #604 | 0.10 |
| 1881 | 10 | #583 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 6 | #892 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rupert a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rupert has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rupert: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rupert, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 33% of the 5,611 Americans ever recorded as Rupert. The median Rupert alive today is 56 years old; half are between 30 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 3,197 people named Rupert (10 women and girls, 3,187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,006 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 217 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 577 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 323 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 256 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 178 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 278 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rupert born?
The states with the most babies named Rupert are North Carolina, New York and Texas, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 319 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 291 | #1,991 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 249 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 104 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 81 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 68 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Rupert is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rupert is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rupert with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rupert
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rupert and names like it
- Compare Rupert and WaldoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRupert peaked in 1920.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rupert since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rupert: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Rupert.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rupert alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.