Adolf
Adolf is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 599th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191856 births
- Best rank
- #599in 1891
- Since 1880
- 1,394people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,394 boys have been named Adolf in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adolf | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 38 | |
| 1900s | 63 | |
| 1910s | 358 | |
| 1920s | 393 | |
| 1930s | 208 | |
| 1940s | 75 | |
| 1950s | 82 | |
| 1960s | 87 | |
| 1970s | 43 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Adolf was the 889th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Adolf
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orvalpeak 1918
- Newellpeak 1916
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Reinholdpeak 1917
- Clementpeak 1918
- Waldopeak 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.