Rupert

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rupert: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rupert: Recorded since 1968, with a gap of 18 years, its highest recorded position is #80, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#80highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Rupert's record

Absent from every published list for 18 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#335
1997	#365
1998	#437
1999	#544
2000	#568
2001	#559
2002	#586
2003	#469
2004	#523
2005	#615
2006	#443
2007	#431
2008	#500
2009	#366
2010	#360
2011	#287
2012	#268
2013	#213
2014	#166
2015	#143
2016	#136
2017	#127
2018	#107
2019	#102
2020	#106
2021	#93
2022	#84
2023	#80
2024	#83

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 10 of the 58 years from 1968 to 2025.

In 2024: #83 among boys in England and Wales, #307 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1968–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #267 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #80 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Rupert appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 7,486 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1968.

Rupert across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rupert's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#267 (1968)	#267 (1968)	#829 (2025)	10 of 58	33 (1968–2025)	4 (1971)
England and Wales · Boys	#335 (1996)	#80 (2023)	#83 (2024)	29 of 29	7,486 (1996–2024)	670 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#433 (2021)	#272 (2023)	#272 (2023)	2 of 3	9 (2021–2023)	6 (2023)

Rupert by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rupert in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	217	4 of 10	54
2000s	575	10 of 10	58
2010s	3,549	10 of 10	355
2020sbusiest	3,145	5 of 10	629

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 629 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 141, from 456 to 597.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rupert appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1968 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #80 in England and Wales in 2023.

Rupert's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#83	637	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#80	639	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#84	670	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#93	631	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#106	568	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#102	621	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#107	597	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#127	456	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#136	438	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#143	396	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#166	345	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#213	249	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#268	176	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#287	156	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#360	115	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#366	106	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#500	69	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#431	81	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#443	73	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#615	43	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#523	50	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#469	52	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#586	34	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#559	34	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#568	33	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#544	35	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#437	48	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#365	63	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#335	71	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#272	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#280	4	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#267	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#307	12	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1968 and 2025, ranked in 35 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #80, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 4 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 670 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 18 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 56 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Ruadhan · #81, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Daragh · #80, 62y
Dolores · #80, 56y
Imelda · #80, 53y
Rosaleen · #80, 51y

Rupert was ranked #80 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rupert and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rupert without appearing here.

Rupert moved ahead of

Grant Compare
In 2002 they stood at #586 and #568 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #469 and #761.
Ian Compare
In 2008 they stood at #500 and #418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #366 and #552.
Gary Compare
In 2005 they stood at #615 and #574 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #443 and #592.
Graham Compare
In 2022 they stood at #635 and #635 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #660 and #770.

Moved ahead of Rupert

Sebastian Compare
In 2012 they stood at #280 and #304 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2013 that had become #711 and #98.
Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #365 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #437 and #182.
Roman Compare
In 1999 they stood at #544 and #809 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #568 and #401.
Albie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #469 and #490 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #523 and #408.

Moved the opposite way to Rupert

Arthur Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 while Arthur went from #105 to #57.
Cian Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 while Cian went from #267 to #33.
Jude Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 while Jude went from #167 to #61.
Leo Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 while Leo went from #107 to #10.

Moved the same way as Rupert

Adrian Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 and Adrian from #59 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 and Alan from #18 to #232.
Andrew Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 and Andrew from #32 to #106.
Anthony Compare
Between 1968 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Rupert went from #267 to #829 and Anthony from #14 to #135.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1968 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #80 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rupert

Rupert at a glance

What stands out in Rupert's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rupert across 3 official records

Rupert by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rupert appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Rupert at a glance

What stands out in Rupert's record

Rupert across 3 official records

Rupert by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rupert appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Rupert

Rupert and the names beside it

Rupert moved ahead of

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