girls:
20 births since 1917
#5696 (0th percentile)
boys:
18.7k births since 1880
#840 (82nd percentile)
overall:
18.8k births since 1880
#1879 (76th percentile)
The name Adolph is the #1,879 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,764 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #840 (81.7% percentile) for all time with 18,744 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,696 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 1917.
Adolph has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls). Birth data for Adolph is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (140 years for boys and 3 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 Adolph has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Adolph reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 65.7% percentile (ranked #178) with 702 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 1,022 births per million (ranked 47.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Adolph ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Adolph reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #574) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adolph".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Adolph. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.5% confident that Adolph is pronounced as AY-dahlf, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-dahlf, at 21.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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