Adolph
Adolph is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 112th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1917673 births
- Best rank
- #112in 1883
- Since 1880
- 18,745people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,745 boys have been named Adolph in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 673 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 673 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 24%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adolph | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 994 | |
| 1890s | 945 | |
| 1900s | 941 | |
| 1910s | 4,523 | |
| 1920s | 4,471 | |
| 1930s | 2,189 | |
| 1940s | 1,261 | |
| 1950s | 1,368 | |
| 1960s | 826 | |
| 1970s | 518 | |
| 1980s | 334 | |
| 1990s | 215 | |
| 2000s | 93 | |
| 2010s | 48 | |
| 2020s | 19 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Adolph was the 180th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Adolph
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emilpeak 1917
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Othopeak 1915
- Natpeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.