girls:
10 births since 1986
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
16k births since 1882
#918 (80th percentile)
overall:
16k births since 1882
#2052 (73rd percentile)
The name Adolfo is the #2,052 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,018 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 73.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #918 (80.0% percentile) for all time with 16,008 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1986.
Adolfo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Adolfo is available in 129 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (129 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Adolfo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Adolfo reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 47.2% percentile (ranked #461) with 228 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 240 births per million (ranked 46.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Adolfo ranks #838 for boys (8.0% percentile) with 43 births per million, which is 17.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Adolfo reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #814) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adolfo".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Adolfo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.1% confident that Adolfo is pronounced as uh-DAWL-foh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-DAHL-foh, at 36.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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