Adolf

From Old High German adal (“noble”) + wulf (“wolf”). Doublet of Ethelwolf from Old English Æþelwulf.

Adolf (plural Adolfs)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Adolph.

• Very rarely given to children since World War II because of its association with Adolf Hitler.

• IPA^(key): [ˈadolf]

Adolf m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

Adolf

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

• Rare after World War II.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.dɔlf/

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• Hyphenation: Adolf

Adolf m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

Adolf m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

Patronymics

• son of Adolf: Adolfsson
• daughter of Adolf: Adolfsdóttir

• Adulf

From Old High German adal (“noble”) + wolf (“wolf”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdɔlf/

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Adolf m (proper noun, strong, genitive Adolfs or (with an article) Adolf)

1. a male given name from Old High German, equivalent to English Adolph

• Adolf was one of the most popular names between 1890 and 1905, after which it began to become less common. It saw a renewed rise in popularity between 1933 and 1941, but remained below the levels of the turn of the century. Since the end of the 1940s, it became very rare; when used at all it was generally as a middle name. In the GDR it was even entirely forbidden, which means that noticeably fewer Adolfs live in that region than in other German-speaking areas. In 2006, there was 1 baby in a sample of 27 700 who was given the middle name Adolf.^[1] As of 1998, there lived about about 75 000 Germans named Adolf.

• Ad, Adalwolf, Adi, Ado, Adolph, Dolf, Dolfi, Athaulf

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdolf]
• Hyphenation: Adolf
• Rhymes: -olf

Adolf

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

• Adólf

Likely borrowed from German Adolf.

Adolf m (proper noun, genitive singular Adolfs)

1. a male given name

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “Adolf”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið

From Old High German adal (“noble”) + wulf (“wolf”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.dɔlf/

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• Rhymes: -adɔlf
• Syllabification: A‧dolf

Adolf m pers (female equivalent Adolfa or Adolfina)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

• Adolf in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ˈadoɫf/

Adolf m pers (genitive singular Adolfa, nominative plural Adolfovia, genitive plural Adolfov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

• Ado
• Dolo
• Dolfo
• Adko

• “Adolf”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Runic Swedish Aulfr.

Adolf c (genitive Adolfs)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph

• The name of four Swedish kings. Due to its association with Hitler, the name became rare after World War II.