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Adolph

As a boy's name, Adolph is understood to mean "noble wolf". It had its heyday in the 1910s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

GermanicGermanic "adal" (noble) + "wolf"
EtymologyMeaning "noble wolf"
Births by decade
1900s
941
1910s
4,531
1920s
4,476
1930s
2,196
1940s
1,261
1950s
1,368
1960s
825
1970s
517
1980s
334
1990s
215
2000s
92
2010s
43
Peaked in the 1910s · 16,799 total U.S. births since 1900