Adolf

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Adolf or Adolph is a male given name and family name .

Origin and meaning

The name comes from Old High German and is composed of adal (noble, elegant) and wolf ( wolf ). This can be understood together as “noble wolf” or “noble wolf”, but many old Germanic personal names are simply composed of two positive terms, without the composition as such having to have any meaning.

popularity

Both in Protestant Germany (because of Gustav Adolf and Adolph von Knigge ) and in Catholic (because of Adolph Kolping ) Adolf had a certain popularity. In 1890 the name was thirteenth on the popularity list of all male first names in Germany. But since the beginning of the 20th century the frequency of first names has been decreasing. After an upswing from 1933, which lasted until 1942, the use of the name - probably in relation to the popularity of Adolf Hitler - collapsed . Since the early 1950s, the first name Adolf was rarely given to newborns in German-speaking countries. The name is heavily burdened by the dictator Adolf Hitler and also by other National Socialists such as Adolf Eichmann .

The name was also popular in Sweden , where several kings bore the name. However, in no decade since the 1920s he was among the top ten most popular given names. In 2015 there were only around 2600 bearers of this name in Sweden. Since 1998 at the latest, fewer than ten newborn boys have been given this name each year.

name day

Name days are January 11th and June 17th .

variants

First name

The feminine form is Adolfine . Other male variants are:

Short forms

family name

Name bearer

Noble rulers

First name

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  • Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), German-Baltic Protestant theologian
  • Adolf Heeb (* 1940), Liechtenstein cyclist and politician (VU)
  • Adolf Hennecke (1905–1975), miner, role model for the activist movement in the Soviet occupation zone (later GDR)
  • Adolf Hering (1863–1932), German painter and illustrator
  • Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), German NSDAP politician, Reich Chancellor and dictator during the Nazi era (1933–1945)
  • Adolph Hofner (1916–2000), American country musician
  • Adolf Holl (1930–2020), Austrian theologian
  • Adolf Horchler (1849–1929), German local politician and home nurse from Kempten (Allgäu)
  • Adolf Horion (1888–1977), German Roman Catholic clergyman and entomologist
  • Adolf Hütter, called Adi Hütter (* 1970), Austrian football player

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  • Adolf Mahr (1887–1951), Austrian archaeologist; later a National Socialist radio propagandist
  • Adolf Maislinger (1903–1985), German prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
  • Adolph Arthur Marx, known as Harpo Marx (1888–1964), American entertainer and actor
  • Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), German painter
  • Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), German entrepreneur
  • Adolf Andreas Meyer, called Andy Borg (* 1960), Austrian pop singer and presenter
  • Adolf Muschg (* 1934), Swiss writer

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  • Adolf Ogi (* 1942), Swiss SVP politician, UN special advisor for sport in the service of development and peace
  • Adolf Ostertag (* 1939), German politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag

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Others

family name

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Stock: What, what's your name ?, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung No. 21, May 28, 2017, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Evaluation at favored-vornamen.de
  3. ↑ Statistics from the Swedish Statistics Office ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)
  4. ↑ Name statistics on Allt för Föräldrar , accessed on July 22, 2016 (Swedish)
  5. ↑ Swedish Statistics Agency: Birth numbers 1998-2012, sorted alphabetically by name ( Memento from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Wiktionary: Adolf  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Flag of Slovenia.svg Frequency, regional distribution and age cohort distribution of the name Adolf in Slovenia