Ralph is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Ralph isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ralph ranks 963. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Ralph. In total, there are currently 388,145 people – children, adults and seniors – named Ralph living in the United States, which is approximately 0.12 % of the entire population.
Ralph is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Ralph. This means that several boys named Ralph have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Ralph has reached its best rank of #21 multiple times, most recently in 1917. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Ralph one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ralph was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Ralph is one of them. However, Ralph is not equally widespread in all states, but people in West Virginia seem to particularly fancy this name – the 7,576 men called Ralph who live here are 0,494% of all male residents and push their name up to #42 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in West Virginia. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 388,145 people with the name Ralph. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Ralph on position 80 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Ralph is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Ralph and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ralph, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ralph sounds like this:
