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Rodolfo

boy name
Origin
Spanish
Syllables
3
Peak era
1990s/2010s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

famous wolf

How popular is Rodolfo around the world?

In the United States, 795 babies were named Rodolfo between 2020 and 2025. At the 2022 census, 48,672 people in Brazil were named Rodolfo, the 577th most common name, with a median age of 34.

Rodolfo is on the official records of the United States, Brazil, Mexico City, Chile, Spain, Montevideo and Argentina.

United States

1 in 27,000

In the United States, 795 babies were named Rodolfo between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 1990s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Rodolfo peaked in the 1990s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure. In US birth records Rodolfo has stayed between 795 and 5,685 births in every decade since the 1950s: a name everyone knows and few children get.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Brazil

1 in 4,200

At the 2022 census, 48,672 people in Brazil were named Rodolfo, the 577th most common name, with a median age of 34.
Among people named Rodolfo living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1980s as in the 1990s, more than in any other decade.

1930s2010s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 699 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Mexico City City

1 in 6,200

In Mexico City, there were 19 registrations of Rodolfo in 2022.

peak 20002022

share of that year’s registrations in the city

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023 (3 registrations through 3 Mar) is excluded as partial. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Chile

1 in 6,600

In Chile, 27 boys were registered as Rodolfo in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1920peak 19862021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Spain

1 in 9,900

In Spain, 4,511 residents are named Rodolfo, the 443rd most common name among men, with a mean age of 58.7 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Montevideo City

1 in 12,000 · 2011

In Montevideo, 2 boys named Rodolfo were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.

peak 19422011

share of that year’s births on record

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Argentina

1 in 22,000

In Argentina, 30 newborns were given the name Rodolfo in 2024.

peak 20122024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Canada

last on record 1993

Rodolfo is not on the 2024 record for Canada, where names under 5 in a year are excluded at source.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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Puerto Rico

last on record 2011

Rodolfo is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 55 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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South Australia

last on record 1992

Rodolfo is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Not on the record in England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.

Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.

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When you meet Rodolfo

People given the name Rodolfo in the United States span the generations: the middle half were born anywhere from 1960 to 2009. Age is the one thing the name won't tell you.

Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.

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