Adolpho

Last seen for boys in 2005 at #11,472

Peak · boys
1941 · 9 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
227
since 1920

Adolpho over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Adolpho has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201936peak #2,491, 1941boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2005#11,4725
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1991#5,9428
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1989#7,9055
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1987#4,9688
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1985#5,7856
1984#6,3155
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1982#4,5938
1981#6,2625
1980#6,2505
1979#6,0565
1978#5,7725
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1976#5,5875
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1970#4,7245
1969#3,5957
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1967#3,2317
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First appearance
1920

The first year at least five boys were named Adolpho! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1920–1923, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Adolpho is popular in 1936

No state had 5 or more boys named Adolpho in 1936, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adolpho
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1920
  • Peaked 1941 at #2,491 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1942, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 125,860
  • Highest: 1 in 125,860 boys born in 1924 were named Adolpho (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 399,461 boys born in 2005 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,491 in 1941, was only 1 in 136,480 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 18.5% of all boys named Adolpho (42) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s33#3,023 (1924)#3,673
1930s29#3,175 (1937)#3,307
1940s31#2,491 (1941)#3,234
1950s16#3,505 (1955)#3,728
1960s32#3,044 (1963)#3,567
1970s26#4,634 (1974)#5,355
1980s42#4,593 (1982)#6,011
1990s13#5,942 (1991)#7,604
2000s5#11,472 (2005)#11,472

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Adolpho in 1936

boys
#3,549
5 births · 1 in 207,441 boys

Top boys' names in 1936

  1. #1Robert58,500
  2. #2James54,694
  3. #3John47,683
  4. #4William39,398
  5. #5Richard33,494
  6. #6Charles29,101
  7. #7Donald28,639
  8. #8Thomas18,342
  9. #9George18,197
  10. #10David17,476
  11. #3,549Adolpho5
More about 1936

boys

1,037,205 boys got a published name in 1936; 1 in 207,441 of them was named Adolpho, which outranked 12.1% of the 4,037 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adolpho
  1. #3,147Zachariah6
  2. #3,147Zebbie6
  3. #3,147Zeke6
  4. #3,549Adolpho5
  5. #3,549Abdon5
  6. #3,549Adger5
  7. #3,549Adlai5

Tied with 488 names at #3,549; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1935
Risers
  1. ↑ 802Errol#1,708 → #906
  2. ↑ 644Sergio#1,584 → #940
  3. ↑ 601Brice#1,494 → #893
  4. ↑ 537Windell#1,390 → #853
  5. ↑ 529Kim#1,390 → #861
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,082Stafford#980 → #2,062
  2. ↓ 889Darwyn#750 → #1,639
  3. ↓ 461Hunter#956 → #1,417
  4. ↓ 399Orvil#844 → #1,243
  5. ↓ 370Rosendo#956 → #1,326

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1936 →