Ralf
Ralf or Ralph is a male given name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Ralf comes from the Old High German Radulf ( rat = the advice , the advice , the counselor ; wolf = the wolf ) and is a short form of the name.
distribution
The name Ralf was not in use in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. From the twenties his popularity increased, so that in the early sixties he was among the ten most common boy names of the respective year a few times. Then his popularity gradually declined, since the beginning of the nineties hardly any boys have been called Ralf.
name day
- June 21 (= anniversary of the death of St. Radulf in 866)
- September 7th (= anniversary of the death of St. Ralph Corbie in 1644)
Name bearer
First name
- Ralf Allgöwer (* 1964), German soccer player
- Ralph Anspach (* 1926), American economist and inventor of Anti-Monopoly
- Ralf Bader (* 1980), German handball player and trainer
- Ralf Bendix (1924-2014), German pop singer
- Ralf P. Brandes (* 1969) German physiologist, Adolf Fick Prize winner
- Ralph Brinkhaus (* 1968), German politician
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (1812-1892), American politician
- Ralf Bursy (* 1956), German singer
- Ralph Buss (* 1982), Swiss chess player
- Ralph Caspers (* 1972), German television presenter
- Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), German-British sociologist, politician and publicist
- Ralph Engelhardt (* 1949), German aerospace engineer
- Ralph Eppel (* 1951), British-Canadian jazz musician
- Ralph d'Escures († 1122), Roman Catholic bishop
- Ralph de Gaël , Anglo-Breton lord of Monfort and Gaël, as well as Earl of Norfolk and Earl of Suffolk
- Ralf Fährmann (* 1988), German soccer goalkeeper
- Ralph Fiennes (born 1962), British actor
- Ralf Forster (1961–2020), German soccer player
- Ralf Fücks (* 1951), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Ralph Giordano (1923–2014), German journalist, writer and director
- Ralf Hütter (* 1946), German musician, founding member of the Kraftwerk music group
- Ralph Kercheval (1911-2010) American football player
- Ralph Kirby (1884–1945), English football player and coach
- Ralph Kretschmar (* 1980), German actor
- Ralf Krewinkel (* 1974), Dutch politician
- Ralf Christian Mayer , German musician, composer and producer
- Ralph McTell (* 1944), British musician
- Ralf Moeller (* 1959), German-American actor and former Mr. Universum
- Ralph Morgenstern (* 1956), German moderator
- Ralph Neely (born 1943), American football player
- Ralph Ogden (born 1948), American basketball player
- Ralf Otto (* 1956), German conductor
- Ralf Paulsen (1929–2015), German singer
- Ralph Pordzik (* 1966), German author and English specialist
- Ralph "Rep" Porter (* 1971), American poker player
- Ralf Pröve (* 1960), German historian
- Ralf Regenbogen (* 1960), German soccer player
- Ralf Reinders (* 1948), German-Dutch terrorist
- Ralf Rueff (* 1968), German soccer player and coach
- Ralf Scheepers (* 1965), German musician and singer
- Ralf Schmidt (musician) (* 1960), German singer, lyricist, composer and producer
- Ralf Schmidt (soccer player) (* 1985), German soccer player
- Ralf Schmitz (* 1974), German comedian
- Ralf Schumacher (* 1975), German racing driver
- Ralph Scott (1894–1936) American football player and coach
- Ralph Siegel (* 1945), German musician, pop composer and music producer
- Ralph Maria Siegel (1911–1972), German composer
- Ralph Sina (* 1955), German radio journalist
- Ralf de Souza Teles (* 1984), Brazilian soccer player
- Ralph Spirk (* 1986), Austrian soccer player
- Ralf Stegner (* 1959), German politician (SPD)
- Ralph the Timid († 1057), Earl of Hereford (from 1052)
- Ralf Wack (* 1967), German pool player
- Ralf Waldmann (1966–2018), German motorcycle racer
- Ralph de Warneville , Lord Chancellor of England from 1173 to 1181
- Ralf Wolter (* 1926), German actor
- Ralph Ruthe (* 1972), German cartoonist, comic artist, author and musician
family name
- Anselmo Ralph (* 1981), Angolan pop singer
- Bo Ralph (* 1945), Swedish linguist
- Damani Ralph (* 1980), Jamaican soccer player
- Einar Ralf (1888–1971), Swedish opera singer, composer, conductor and arranger
- Hanna Ralph (1888–1978), German actress
- J. Ralph ( Joshua Ralph ; * 1975), American musician
- Jason Ralph (* 1986), American actor
- Jessie Ralph (1864–1944), American actress
- Louis Ralph (1878–1952; born in Ludwig Musik ), Austrian actor and film director
- Sheryl Lee Ralph (born 1956), American actress and singer
- Torsten Ralf (1901–1951), Swedish opera singer (tenor)
Others
- Ralph (South Dakota) , location in USA
- Code name of the spy Erwin Respondek
- Mount Ralph , mountain in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
variants
- male: Ralf, Ralph, Raedwulf, Radolf , Radolph, Radulf, Radulph, Radulphus, Ranulph , Raoul , Raul ; Wolfrad, Wolfrat, Wolfrath
- differentiate: Rolf (from Rudolf )
Derived place names
- Ralph is the name of ten smaller towns in the US and one in Canada
- Ralphs is a small town in Delaware, USA (38 ° 30 ′ N, 75 ° 38 ′ W)
- Ralphton is a small town in Pennsylvania (USA) (40 ° 7 ′ N, 79 ° 1 ′ W)
- (5051) Ralph is the name of an asteroid
Popular culture
- The movie King Ralph (US 1991)
- The short film Ralph (UK 2008)
- The animated film Ralph Enough (USA 2012)
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Wiktionary: Ralf - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
