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Adolfo vs Adonnis

American parents have registered 16,205 Adolfos since 1880, against 720 Adonnises. Adolfo is still ahead, with 83 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adolfo against Adonnis, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adolfo Adonnis

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Adolfo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Adolfo had 78 and Adonnis had 51.

Side by side

  Adolfo Adonnis
Total US births 16,205720
Most in one year 50551
Babies in 2025 8332
Estimated living today 13,000710
Median age today 289
Peak year 20032020
Best rank 488th boys2,505th boys
Rank in 2025 1,886th3,513th
First recorded 18821980
Girls / boys 10 / 16,1950 / 720

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Adolfos alive today are over 28; half the Adonnises are over 9. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adolfo and Adonnis.