Adolphus

Where Adolphus comes from

From Latin Adolphus. Doublet of Adolph.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adolphus
  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1686
    Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz born
    Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  2. 1868
    Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge born
    British Army general
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #425 among boys — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1893
    Peak, #330
    28 babies named Adolphus — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1894
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #631.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, a Latinized variant of Adolph.
Namesakes
  • Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge · British Army general, 1868–1927
  • Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz · Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1686–1752
  • Adolphus Greely · American army officer and polar explorer, 1844–1935
  • Adolphus Warburton Moore · British climber, 1841–1887
  • Adolphus William Ward · British historian, 1837–1924

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.