Dolph
Dolph was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 626 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dolph by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dolph?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,223, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1919, the peak
Dolph peaked in 1919, when 18 boys were given it, #1,826 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,223 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,035 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,538 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,284 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,671 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,325 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,719 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,406 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,391 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,348 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 10 | #2,732 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,452 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,351 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,523 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,284 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,274 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,540 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,312 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,929 | 4.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,624 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,846 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,489 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,714 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,439 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,438 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,193 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,024 | 4.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,760 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,111 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,365 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,202 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,937 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,113 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,952 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,425 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,379 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,360 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,684 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,125 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,683 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,639 | 9.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,542 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,004 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,220 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,327 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,007 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,316 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,849 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,360 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,826 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,090 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,836 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,071 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,720 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,704 | 21.4 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,384 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,091 | 16.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,808 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,653 | 25.7 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,389 | 34.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,182 | 40.8 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,092 | 47.0 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,357 | 33.2 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,126 | 43.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,078 | 44.5 |
| 1890 | 6 | #919 | 54.0 |
| 1888 | 6 | #951 | 49.6 |
| 1887 | 7 | #766 | 69.0 |
| 1886 | 6 | #873 | 54.2 |
| 1883 | 5 | #931 | 47.8 |
| 1882 | 6 | #864 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 9 | #613 | 89.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dolph a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dolph has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dolph: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dolph, and how old are they?
An estimated 168 Americans named Dolph and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 63 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Dolph (1 woman or girl, 283 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dolph
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dolph and names like it
- Compare Dolph and DolphusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDolph peaked in 1919.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dolph since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Dolph.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dolph alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.