Adolphus
The boy's name Adolphus has been in the national records since 1880, with 4,109 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 1,400 Adolphuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Adolphus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,109
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 709th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Adolphuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,109 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,400 are alive — 35 in every hundred. Roughly 40 of them are children and 660 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Latin Adolphus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Adolphuss
- Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850)British and Hanoverian Royal (1774-1850), Duke of Cambridge from 1786
- Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1882–1918)Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686–1752)Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (1868–1927)British Army general
- Adolphus Greely (1844–1935)American army officer and polar explorer
- Adolphus VIII of Holstein (1401–1459)Duke of Southern Jutland, Count of Holstein
- Adolphus I, Count of the Mark (1200–1249)son of Frederick I, Count of Berg-Altena and Alveradis of Krickenbeck
- Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841–1887)British climber
People named Adolphus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Adolphus is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adolphus is most concentrated in Georgia (8.7×), Alabama (6.4×), North Carolina (3.7×), Texas (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Adolphus peaked:
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Adolphus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.