Rudolph

girls:

197 births since 1914

#5519 (3rd percentile)

boys:

53.4k births since 1880

#475 (90th percentile)

overall:

53.6k births since 1880

#1034 (87th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rudolph".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
197
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
1928
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
2.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#509
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
53,378
Peak Births
1,690
Peak Year
1926
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
80.2%
Current Percentile
1.9%
Peak Rank
#110
Current Rank
#894
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Rudolph

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Rudolph. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 43.9% confident that Rudolph is pronounced as RUE-dawlf, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUE-dahlf, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.

RUE-dawlf (2 syllables)
Verified
43.9% confidence
R UW1 D AO0 L F
RUE-dahlf (2 syllables)
33.3% confidence
R UW1 D AA0 L F
RUE-dawf (2 syllables)
Verified
9.1% confidence
R UW1 D AO0 F
RUE-DAHLF (2 syllables)
9.1% confidence
R UW1 D AA1 L F
RUE-DAWLF (2 syllables)
4.5% confidence
R UW1 D AO1 L F

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Rudolph. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Rudolph, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SAH-mraj (2 syllables)
1 name 28 births
S AA1 M R AE0 JH

Names with this pronunciation:

SAH-hihb-JAWT (3 syllables)
1 name 38 births
S AA1 HH IH0 B JH AO1 T

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R UW1 D AO0 L F) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.