How Many People Are Named Adolphus?
people named Adolphus are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 235,876 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,109 babies named Adolphus in Social Security records from 1880 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
85 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Latinized form of ADOLF.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Adolphus in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Adolphus alive today is about 59 years old, and 55% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 45 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Adolphus first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1922, to 85 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Adolphus has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #330, in 1893.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #330 (1893) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #841 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Adolphus alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Adolphus were born in Texas than in any other state: about 149 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Adolphus was given 8.7 times as often in Georgia, 5 times in Texas and 4.9 times in Alabama.
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