Adolphus
Adolphus is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 330th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192285 births
- Best rank
- #330in 1893
- Since 1880
- 4,109people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,109 boys have been named Adolphus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 85 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 85 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 68 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adolphus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 189 | |
| 1890s | 178 | |
| 1900s | 149 | |
| 1910s | 531 | |
| 1920s | 643 | |
| 1930s | 525 | |
| 1940s | 474 | |
| 1950s | 503 | |
| 1960s | 325 | |
| 1970s | 202 | |
| 1980s | 175 | |
| 1990s | 116 | |
| 2000s | 63 | |
| 2010s | 31 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Adolphus was the 709th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Adolphus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harrypeak 1918
- Benpeak 1918
- Rolliepeak 1947
- Fredpeak 1924
- Clempeak 1917
- Budpeak 1928
- Claudepeak 1920
- Napoleonpeak 1926
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.