Rolf

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: German

Meaning

Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name Hrolf, itself a contraction of Hrodwulf, a conjunction of the stem words hrod + wulf. The Old Norse cognate is Hrรณlfr. An alternative but less common variation of Rolf in Norway is Rolv.

From Wikipedia

Rolf first appears in the data in 1955 and has been recorded in 60 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1970 with 79 babies (rank #220 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Rolf

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Rolf yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

2,433
Total babies (all years)
60
Years in the data
79
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
195529#285
195630#291
195735#272
195847#242
195945#257
196056#229
196148#263
196262#233
196351#260
196453#264
196560#248
196653#261
196769#232
196865#236
196965#248
197079#220
197168#234
197260#246
197354#254
197472#210
197569#214
197670#209
197756#240
197861#229
197963#225
198069#227
198158#252
198259#246
198364#231
198455#259
198555#259
198645#311
198749#309
198844#335
198948#323
199045#347
199124#506
199241#365
199344#345
199439#382
199532#431
199623#516
199720#559
199825#505
199922#540
200028#483
200111#749
200213#695
200316#621
200415#645
200511#736
20069#790
20075#986
200811#719
20094#1,076
20107#852
20117#827
20125#954
20134#1,027
20146#866