Gerloff
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a personal name Gerulf, composed of Old High German ger ‘spear’ + -loff, wolf ‘wolf’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɝɫɔf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gerloff is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a personal name Gerulf, composed of Old High German ger ‘spear’ + -loff, wolf ‘wolf’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gerloff counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 618 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 134 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 14 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gerloff is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, zu einem Rufnamen mit Zweitglied ahd. wolf/altsächs. wulf 'Wolf' oder ahd. leiba/altsächs. leva 'Erbe, Nachlass, Sohn, Tochter'; 842 Belege
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Georg Friedrich Kaspar Gerloffb. 1772pedagogue and librarian from Germany
- Johann Heinrich Emil Felix Kienitz-Gerloffb. 1851DEbotanist (1851-1914)
- Wilhelm Gerloffb. 1880DEborn 1880; died 1954
- Johannes Gerloffb. 1915DEGerman botanist (1915-2000)
- Norbert Gerloffb. 1947DEGerman amateur botanist (cacti lover)
- Peter Gerloffb. 1957DEGerman catholic priest as well as lyricist and composer of church songs
- Johannes Gerloffb. 1963DEGerman journalist, author and theologian
- Garrett Gerloffb. 1995USAmerican motorcycle racer
- Sophie Gerloffb. 2003German luger
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 618 | #36,246 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 611 | #34,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 561 | #41,765 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 134 | #50,632 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #259,515 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gerloff mean, and where does it come from?
- from a personal name Gerulf, composed of Old High German ger ‘spear’ + -loff, wolf ‘wolf’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gerloff?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɝɫɔf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gerloff have the most bearers?
- Gerloff is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Gerloff?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gerloffThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gerloff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.