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Adolfo vs Adore

American parents have registered 16,205 Adolfos since 1880, against 1,181 Adores. But in 2025 it was Adore that was commoner, 126 babies to 83.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adolfo against Adore, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adolfo Adore

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Adolfo for 126 years and Adore for 5 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adolfo Adore
Total US births 16,2051,181
Most in one year 505137
Babies in 2025 83126
Estimated living today 13,0001,200
Median age today 284
Peak year 20032022
Best rank 488th boys1,612th girls
Rank in 2025 1,886th1,777th
First recorded 18822000
Girls / boys 10 / 16,1951,108 / 73

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Adolfos alive today are over 28; half the Adores are over 4. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adolfo and Adore.