Dolphus
Dolphus is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 506th, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193037 births
- Best rank
- #506in 1885
- Since 1880
- 1,245people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,245 boys have been named Dolphus in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1930, its biggest year
Dolphus was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1930 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Dolphus
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Lewpeak 1959
- Lafayettepeak 1921
- Bertpeak 1918
- Enospeak 1921
- Irapeak 1947
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Columbuspeak 1922
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.