Adolf name meaning

✍ Updated on: March 5th, 2023

Gender: Boy

Origin: Old High German and Germanic

Usage: German, English, Faroese, Icelandic, Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian

Pronunciation: pronunciation of Adolf

a-do-lf

Meaning: Wolf, Honorable and Noble Wolf

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What does Adolf mean?
Variations of Adolf
How popular is Adolf?
Popularity Chart
Similar Names to Adolf
Sibling Names for Adolf
Famous People Named Adolf
Lists having Adolf

What does Adolf mean?

Outstanding and Traditional boy name Adolf means "Noble, Honorable or Noble Wolf" mainly used in Danish, German, Norwegian, Faroese, Finnish, Icelandic, English and Swedish came from Old High German and Germanic. Adolf is German form of Athalwolf.

Also Adolf is German form of Attaulf.

How do I pronounce Adolf?

Three syllabled Adolf is most commonly pronounced as a-do-lf.

Variants of Adolf

Aatto, Ate, Ad, Adlai, Adnan, Athalwolf, Attaulf, Aate, Ata, Adam, Aron, Aatos, Add

Names that rhyme with Adolf

How popular is the name Adolf?

Adolf is a familiar baby name in United States, it had been in use since 1880 and was last seen in 1990, during its 86 years of usage, it was able to reach the top 600 names.

In 1891, it achieved its highest ever ranking of 597 on boy names chart when 56 babies were named Adolf. Over 1394 babies in United States have been named Adolf. The given name is an uncommon baby name in France and may not be used now as it was last seen in 1944.

However things change on global perspective, Adolf is extremely popular in Germany where every 1 in 800 have the name. Also the baby name is popular in Austria, Uganda and Tanzania.

At least, 210000 people globally have carried Adolf as their given name according to our estimate.

Year	Rank	Births
1990	8109	5
1983	4903	7
1980	6252	5
1979	6051	5
1976	5583	5

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Adolf in Nordic countries

Countries	Men		Women
Countries	First Name	Secondary Name	First Name	Secondary Name
	1641	2313	0	42
	7185	892	10	0
	173	2011	0	42
	32	92	0	42
	89	0	0	0

What numbers say about Adolf?

You can win anyone's attention with your charm. You believe that nothing is impossible until your heart beats. You prefer originality and hard work instead of taking the easier road to success. You prefer to follow your intuition rather than follow rules and suggestions. Allow your creativity to take over your mind and just be who you truly are. You are always open to experience something new.

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Sibling Names for Adolf

Adolf is a strong name that has its roots in German, meaning “noble wolf”. Here are some other sibling names if you're looking for something to go with “Adolf”:

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Famous people named Adolf

Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
Adolf Deucher, Swiss politician
Adolf Reubke, German organ builder
Adolf Wölfli, Swiss artist
Adolf Wallenberg, German internist and neurologist
Adolf Busch, German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer
Adolf Lindenbaum, Polish-Jewish logician and mathematician
Adolf Østbye, revue artist and barber
Adolf Pokorny, dermatologist
Adolf Appellöf, Swedish marine zoologist
Adolf Kneser, German mathematician
Adolf Stoecker, court chaplain to Kaiser Wilhelm I, a politician
Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet
Adolf Schlagintweit, German botanist and explorer of Central Asia
Adolf Jellinek, After filling clerical posts in Leipzig

Adolf von Henselt, German composer and virtuoso pianist
Adolf Wahrmund, Austrian-German orientalist
Adolf Erman, renowned German Egyptologist and lexicographer
Adolf Lande, primary drafter of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Adolf Holtzmann, German professor and philologist
Adolf Wilbrandt, German novelist and dramatist
Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and racing cyclist
Adolf Müllner, German critic and dramatic poet
Adolf von Sonnenthal, Austrian actor
Adolf Wuttke, German Protestant theologian
Adolf Glassbrenner, German humorist and satirist
Adolf Daens, Flemish priest from Aalst
Adolf Zika, Czech photographer
Adolf Bernhard Meyer, German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist

Adolf of Altena, was Archbishop of Cologne from 1193 to 1205
Adolf Overweg, German geologist, astronomer
Adolf Portmann, zoologist
Adolf Maislinger, member of the German Resistance and was a survivor of Dachau concentration camp
Adolf Tolkachev, Soviet electronics engineer
Adolf of Osnabrück, was born in Tecklenburg about 1185
Adolf Grabowsky, German political scientist and author of several books about geopolitics and political theory
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish baron, geologist
Adolf Kirchhoff, German classical scholar and epigraphist
Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist
Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist
Adolf Furtwängler, German archaeologist, teacher

Adolf Windaus, German chemist
Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician
Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist who synthesised indigo
Adolf Reinach, German philosopher
Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld, German Protestant theologian
Adolf Mayer, German agricultural chemist whose work on tobacco mosaic disease played an important role in the discovery of tobacco mosaic virus and viruses
Adolf Bastian, 19th-century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology as a discipline
Adolf Meyer, psychiatrist
Adolf Bertram, was archbishop of Breslau and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Adolf Loos, architect
Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death

Adolf of Germany, was Count of Nassau from about 1276 and elected King of Germany
Adolf Anderssen, German chess master
Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general
Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian
Adolf Galland, German 'Luftwaffe' general and flying ace
Adolf Lu Hitler Marak, politician in the state of Meghalaya, India
Adolf Guyer-Zeller, Swiss entrepreneur
Adolf Brand, German writer, egoist anarchist
Adolf Born, Czech painter, illustrator, caricaturist
Adolf Dymsza, very popular and remarkable Polish comedy actor of both the pre-World War II and post-war eras
Adolf Brudes, Formula One driver
Adolf Schreyer, German painter

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