How Many People Are Named Ralf?
people named Ralf are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,867,676 people in the US has this name
Based on 304 babies named Ralf in Social Security records from 1920 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
19 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of RALPH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ralf in English. Counting Ralf and these spellings together, about 141,636 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Ralf in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ralf alive today is about 58 years old, and 58% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 54 and 66 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ralf first appears in the records in 1920 and was given most often in 1963, to 19 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1920 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Ralf has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,881, in 1963.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,881 (1963) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,678 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ralf alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ralf were born in New York than in any other state: about 6 of those alive today.
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