Rutger
The boy's name Rutger has been in the national records since 1987, with 274 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 270 Rutgers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Rutger
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 274
- Estimated living today
- 270
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 2,943rd
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1987
How old the living Rutgers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 274 babies given the name since 1987, about 270 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Rutgers
- Rutger Hauer (1944–2019)Dutch actor
- Rutger Bregman (born 1988)Dutch journalist, writer and historian
- Rutger Smith (born 1981)Dutch shot put and discus thrower
- Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761–1825)Dutch ambassador and Grand pensionary of Holland
- Rutger von Ascheberg (1621–1693)Swedish noble
- Rutger Gunnarsson (1946–2015)Swedish musician, record producer, music arranger
- Rutger Sernander (1866–1944)Swedish scientist
People named Rutger with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rutger is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Rutger peaked:
Rutger elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Rutger | 132 | 410th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rutger: rank by region
In 2010, Rutger was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Rutger | 871 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Rutger among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Rutger | 6,977 | 9,368 |
| the Netherlands girls | Rutger | — | 14 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Rutger against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.