boys:
3.1k births since 1912
#2252 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1912
#4891 (37th percentile)
The name Rolf is the #4,891 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,089 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 36.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,252 (50.9% percentile) for all time with 3,089 births since 1912.
Rolf first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for boys in 1912). Birth data for Rolf is available in 94 out of the 111 years between 1912 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Rolf reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #565) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 49 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rolf".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rolf. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.9% confident that Rolf is pronounced as rohlf, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rawlf, at 38.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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