Adolf is a male first name.
Recently, the name Adolf has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Adolf. That means that a boy named Adolf is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Adolf.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Adolf. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 317 Americans who bear this name. And these 317 men and boys named Adolf live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Adolf lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Adolf and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Adolf relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 75,989 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Adolf.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With five letters, the name Adolf is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Adolf and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Adolf, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Adolf
Adolf
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
D
O
L
F
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
D
O
L
F
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Adolf sounds like this:
