Adolph is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Recently, the name Adolph 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 Adolph. That means that a boy named Adolph is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. In the entire USA, approximately 12,372 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Adolph. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Adolph is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2021, where the name Adolph was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Adolph and were born in the USA in 2021, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Adolph even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1883, it ranked on position 105 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Adolph was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Adolph has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 8 times and thus landed on position 7,630 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 8 boys with the name Adolph, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
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 six letters, the name Adolph is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Adolph 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 Adolph, you can simply say:
Apple
Dinosaur
Orange
Lion
Pig
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Adolph
Adolph
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
D
O
L
P
H
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
P
H
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. Adolph sounds like this:
