Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Dolphus

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Dolphus
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1930

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1880Peak 19302024

Peak year

1930

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,245

Dolphus has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1930, when 37 boys were named Dolphus.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,245 Americans have been named Dolphus and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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