Given name
Adolphine
“a noble, majestic wolf”
Adolphine connects to the Adolph name family through Adolpha. One German interpretation is “a noble, majestic wolf.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Adolphine connects to the Adolph name family through Adolpha. One German interpretation is “a noble, majestic wolf.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Adolphine connects to the Adolph name family through Adolpha. An origin associated with Adolph is German.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1894. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Adolphine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 0 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1916.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Adolphine’s family of names
Adolphine has a related form in Adolpha.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Adolphine
- Augustine-Malvina BlanchecotteFrench poet and writer (1830–1897)
- Dolly RudemanDutch graphic designer (1902-1980)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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