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Gandolfo

Boys' name

Possibly battle + wolf, through Gundulfus

Gandolfo has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Gandolfo, 1925

1 in 467,000

Gandolfo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gandolfo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly battle + wolf, through Gundulfus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gandolfo means

Gandolfo belongs to the name family reached through Gandolfo → Gundulfus → *Gunþiwulfaz. Its meaning is “battle + wolf”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gandolfo is used in Italian.

Gandolfo comes through Medieval Latin Gundulfus and Proto-Germanic *Gunþiwulfaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gundulfus and *Gunþiwulfaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Gandolfo is pronounced /ɡanˈdɔl.fo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Gandolfo between 1925 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #4,466 in 1925.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Gandolfo?

Gandolfo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925
1 in 467,000
5 of 2,333,232 births
Among boys only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1925
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
323,456 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gandolfo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gandolfo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gandolfos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gandolfo was born before 1925 — so the typical Gandolfo is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Gandolfo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1925 (5)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,466
1925

Spellings of Gandolfo

Gandolfo is not the most common spelling — Adolfo is, with 94.3% against Gandolfo's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gandolfo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,466
1925
Peak year
1925
5 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gandolfo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GandalfGangeloRandolfoGannynArnolfoGannicusGanttGanzaGanynAdulfoGaniAldolfoGannenGanoGantRanulfoAdelfoGaneshGanonGannonArnulfoRudolfoRodolfoAdolfo

Sibling names for Gandolfo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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