Adolph

Where Adolph comes from

Variant spelling of Adolf.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adolph
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1790
    Adolph Diesterweg born
    German educator and philosopher
  2. 1815
    Adolph von Menzel born
    German artist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #145 among boys — 93 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1883
    Peak, #112
    115 babies named Adolph — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,086.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Adolph von Menzel · German artist, 1815–1905
  • Adolph Diesterweg · German educator and philosopher, 1790–1866
  • Adolph Joffe · Soviet diplomat, 1883–1927
  • Adolph Freiherr Knigge · German writer and leading Illuminati member, 1752–1796
  • Adolph Zukor · Hungarian-American film producer, 1873–1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.