# Adolphe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adolphe/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 295 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 295 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 15 | 2,091 |
| 1926 | 8 | 3,139 |
| 1927 | 13 | 2,298 |
| 1928 | 12 | 2,389 |
| 1929 | 5 | 3,959 |
| 1930 | 7 | 3,292 |
| 1931 | 11 | 2,328 |
| 1932 | 5 | 3,780 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3,271 |
| 1934 | 6 | 3,279 |
| 1935 | 5 | 3,651 |
| 1937 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 1938 | 6 | 3,176 |
| 1941 | 7 | 2,875 |
| 1959 | 5 | 3,989 |

## People named Adolphe

- Adolphe Sax, Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (1814–1894)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (1825–1905)
- Adolphe Adam, French composer (1803–1856)
- Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist (1796-1874)
- Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau (1839–1866), later Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1890–1905)
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz, French chemist (1817–1884)
- Adolphe Menjou, American actor (1890–1963)
- Adolphe Muzito, Congolese Prime Minister
- Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, French botanist (1801-1876)
- Adolphe Marbot, French general (1781–1844)
- Adolphe d'Archiac, academic, member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1853 (1802–1868)
- Adolphe Teikeu, Cameroonian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.