Boy
Ralph
Rooted in Old Norse, Ralph is a boy's name that means "Wolf counsel". It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. The registry counts around 402,987 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
Old NorseWolf counsel
Old EnglishAnglicized form combining wolf and counsel
Births by decade
1900s
9,333
1910s
52,753
1920s
84,948
1930s
64,110
1940s
65,143
1950s
60,593
1960s
34,362
1970s
14,886
1980s
8,056
1990s
4,478
2000s
2,774
2010s
1,551
Peaked in the 1920s · 402,987 total U.S. births since 1900