Rupert is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Rupert in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Rupert in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Rupert by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Rupert ranks at #4,343. That means there are 4,342 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rupert.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Rupert annualy. This means that there have been boys named Rupert who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Rupert have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Rupert even more than any other time: in 1899, it holds its present record at rank #377 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rupert was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Rupert has never been ranked higher than #377. In 2022, he rivaled the 4,482 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 18 boys named Rupert were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Rupert were born, there have been 19 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Rupert, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to men and boys named Rupert. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Rupert living in one state or another. If your name is Rupert and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In North Carolina, which has the most people named Rupert relative to the population, you still have to ask 14,376 men and boys their names before you hear Rupert as an answer just once.
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 six letters, the name Rupert is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Rupert 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 Rupert, you can simply say:
Rocket
Unicorn
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rupert
Rupert
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
U
P
E
R
T
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.
R
U
P
E
R
T
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. Rupert sounds like this:
