Dölf

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dölf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 255Kas Doelf(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain≈1 in 17Mas Doelf

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dölf itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)

≈33 named Doelf, est.

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland, est., as Doelf

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Doelf in ES Spain.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dölf 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.

Where Dölf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland≈33 est.≈1 in 255KDölf7
ES Spain≈3 est.≈1 in 17MDoelf5

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.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dölf is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dolf

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Adolf, King of the Romans, b. 1255Gustav II Adolf, b. 1594Adolf Anderssen, b. 1818Emil Adolf von Behring, b. 1854Gustaf V of Sweden, b. 1858Gustaf VI Adolf, b. 1882Adolf Hitler, b. 1889Hans Adolf Krebs, b. 1900Adolf Dassler, b. 1900Adolf Eichmann, b. 1906
  • Adolf, King of the Romansb. 1255DEnot in their usual nameKing of Germany (1292-1298), count of Nassau (1276-1298)
  • Gustav II Adolfb. 1594SEnot in their usual nameSwedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632)
  • Adolf Anderssenb. 1818PLnot in their usual nameGerman chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist
  • Emil Adolf von Behringb. 1854DEnot in their usual nameGerman physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin
  • Gustaf V of Swedenb. 1858SEnot in their usual nameKing of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
  • Gustaf VI Adolfb. 1882SEnot in their usual nameKing of Sweden (1950–1973); anthropologist, art historian, collector and archaeologist
  • Adolf Hitlerb. 1889ATnot in their usual namedictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
  • Hans Adolf Krebsb. 1900DEnot in their usual nameGerman-British biochemist (1900-1981)
  • Adolf Dasslerb. 1900DEnot in their usual nameGerman entrepreneur, founder of Adidas shoe company (1900–1978)
  • Adolf Eichmannb. 1906DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Dölf?
In the etymology graph, Fito, Atte and Aike are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Dölf a male or female name?
Dölf 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 Dölf have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 33 people named Doelf in Switzerland, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Dölf?
Mondonomo estimates about 33 people in Switzerland have Doelf as their first given name, about 1 in 255 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Dölf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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