How Many People Are Named Adolph?

3,604

people named Adolph are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 94,834 people in the US has this name

Based on 18,765 babies named Adolph in Social Security records from 1880 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,593

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,719

See the top 100

Peak Year

1917

681 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: A-dahlf, AY-dahlf
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

English form of ADOLF, rarely used since World War II.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Adolph in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Adolph alive today is about 62 years old, and 62% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 51 and 75 in 2025.

Under 30 220
6.1%
30 to 59 1,143
31.7%
60 and over 2,240
62.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Adolph first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1917, to 681 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2023

🏆 Rank History

Adolph has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #112, in 1883.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#112 (1883)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#193 in the 1910s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Adolph alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Adolph were born in Texas than in any other state: about 700 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Adolph was given 3.3 times as often in North Dakota, 2.8 times in Texas and 2.4 times in Louisiana.

Texas 700
California 406
New York 187
Louisiana 150
Illinois 114
Pennsylvania 70
Mississippi 47
Colorado 44
Michigan 41
North Carolina 38
Georgia 31
South Carolina 25
New Jersey 23
Florida 22
Alabama 20
Ohio 16
New Mexico 15
Missouri 13
Wisconsin 9
Minnesota 8
Arizona 8
Arkansas 5
North Dakota 3
Massachusetts 2
Iowa 1
Kentucky 1
Connecticut 1
Kansas 1
Nebraska 1

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