Adolph

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling of Adolf

Related Names

See Adolf

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Adolphinpoika
Adolphsen
Adolphson
Adolphsson

Female

Adolphintytär
Adolphsdatter
Adolphsdotter
Adolphsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Adolph
Genitive:	Adolphs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Adolph
Genitive:	Adolphin
Partitive:	Adolphia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Adolph
Accusative:	Adolph
Dative:	Adolphi / Adolph
Genitive:	Adolphs

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Adolph
Genitive:	Adolphs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Adolph
Genitive:	Adolphs

Name Day

Denmark

26 September

Further Information

Pronunciation

• Swedish: [‘ɑ:dɔlf] (key)

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden:
  • on a map from 1640-1641
• Iceland:
  • 1801
  • Officially approved as a given name on 9 February 2023

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1865-1899
  • 1910-1929
  • 1940-1949

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Dalsland (19th century) see map
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Sydsverige
  • Västsverige

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 28 people were named Adolph (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		6	23	0	2	6	21
Denmark		3	n.a.	0	n.a.	3	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	3	0	0	n.a.	3
Iceland		0	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		0	n.a.	0	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Adolph (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.