First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Italian: patronymic or plural form of the personal name Adinolfo, which is of Germanic origin, composed of the elements ad(al) ‘noble’ + wolf ‘wolf’. Compare German Adolf.