Wölfel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -el/-le; Bearer count: 1795+1095
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vœlfəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wölfel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 194Kas Woelfel
- BMBermuda≈1 in 45K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wölfel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 named Woelfel, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Woelfel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CN China and 1 more and Wolfel in BM Bermuda, SC Seychelles.
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)
Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -el/-le; Bearer count: 1795+1095.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wölfel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Woelfel | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Woelfel | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Wölfel | 73 |
| US United States | 1,715as Woelfel | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Woelfel | 245 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 302K | 7 | Woelfel | 17 |
| AR Argentina | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | — | — |
| BM Bermuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Wolfel | 1 |
| SC Seychelles | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Wolfel | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gustav Wölfelb. 1899DEGerman politician (1899-1980)
- Hans Wölfelb. 1902DEGerman lawyer
- Ursula Wölfelb. 1922DEGerman writer (1922-2014)
- Gerhard Wölfelb. 1947German mycologist
- Martin Wölfelb. 1969DEGerman opera singer
- Elisabeth WölfelDEGerman association football player
- Luisa WölfelDEGerman association football player
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Wölfel mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -el/-le; Bearer count: 1795+1095. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Wölfel?
- A machine transcription gives /vœlfəl/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Wölfel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Woelfel in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wölfel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 33 people named Wölfel, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wölfel?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%B6lfelThe 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, “Wölfel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.