I've got a hunch that when you learn about the NameVoyager thing, the first name you enter is your own. Eventually, you'll come around to Adolph or Adolf, because that's a name that obviously suffered a very steep popularity drop since well-known world events. The Adolf-with-an-F spelling actually was never very popular to begin with. 
It's noteworthy that the non-Hitler spelling still hung around into the 1970s. Then again, Adolph, while a somewhat "foreign" name, isn't as unique (at least in the West) as "Idi" or "Pol Pot," so it's not as if naming your kid Adolph would be an endorsement of genocide. (Unless, of course, you're one of those nutty-Nazi New Jersey parents we heard about last year.)But I wouldn't take that chance, either.
Perhaps the name hung around for so long because some kids were being named after their born-before-the-invasion-of-Poland fathers and grandfathers.
The name's Wikipedia page lists a number of notable Adolphs, nearly all of whom were born before 1920. One notable exception is some current politician in India named Adolf Lu Hitler Marak, whose parents might have thrown that "Lu" in there just to hedge their bets.
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