Adolfo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic. See Adolf in German supplement
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/adolfo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adolfo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 936(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 936 (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic. See Adolf in German supplement.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adolfo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #181 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 936 | 320 | Adolfo | 126 |
| US United States | — | 24,707 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Adolfo | 396 |
| PE Peru | #215 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Adolfo | 107 |
| ES Spain | #193 | 19,347 | 1 in 2.6K | 20K | Adolfo | 188 |
| CO Colombia | #190 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 14 | Adolfo | 150 |
| VE Venezuela | #154 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Adolfo | 87 |
| CL Chile | #197 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 32 | Adolfo | 123 |
| PY Paraguay | #107 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Adolfo | 44 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Adolfo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, germánico Adalulf/Ataulf; de adal ‘noble estirpe’ y wulf ‘lobo’: ‘guerrero de noble estirpe’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In French, Var. d’Adolphe; du germ. Adal + wolf: « noble loup »; fête/saint non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Nobile guerriero
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Lobo noble
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquerb. 1836ESSpanish poet
- Adolfo de la Huertab. 1881MXPresident of Mexico (1881–1955)
- Walter Gropiusb. 1883DEnot in their usual nameGerman-American architect (1883–1969)
- Adolfo Ruiz Cortinesb. 1890MX54th President of Mexico
- Adolfo López Mateosb. 1910MX55th President of Mexico
- Adolfo Bioy Casaresb. 1914ARArgentine novelist (1914-1999)
- Adolfo Pedernerab. 1918ARArgentine footballer and manager (1918–1995)
- Adolfo Celib. 1922ITItalian actor (1922-1986)
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivelb. 1931ARArgentine activist, architect and sculptor
- Adolfo Rodríguez Saáb. 1947ARPresident of Argentina in 2001
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25K | #1,405 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20K | #149 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19K | #353 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 83 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 47 | #1,092 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 46 | #1,405 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 32 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 14 | #107 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 12 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1940 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Adolfo mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic. See Adolf in German supplement. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Adolfo?
- In the etymology graph, Adolf, Adolph and Adolphus are forms of the same name in other languages; Fito and Adolfito are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Adolfo?
- A machine transcription gives /adolfo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Adolfo a male or female name?
- Adolfo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Adolfo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Adolfo in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adolfo.
- How common is the name Adolfo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,707 people named Adolfo in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Adolfo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Adolfo is the 181st most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adolfo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adolfoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adolfo” — the 181st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.