Volkhard
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Old High German
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɔlkhaʁt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Volkhard is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- ATAustria
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Old High German
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
- ATAustria
- PLPoland
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Volkhard is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Germanic: ‘people staunch’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, ) Folkhard; Volkard; Volkart;
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Volkhard Windfuhrb. 1937DEGerman journalist (1937–2020)
- Volkhard Uhligb. 1941DEGerman basketball player
- Volkhard Spitzerb. 1943DEGerman musician
- Volkhard Rührigb. 1953DEGerman chess player (1953-1990)
- Volkhard Kniggeb. 1954DEGerman author
- Volkhard Franzb. 1954DEGerman university teacher
- Volkhard Huthb. 1959DEGerman medievalist
- Volkhard Krechb. 1962DEGerman theologian
- Volkhard Klingerb. 1965DEGerman computer scientist
- Volkhard Willeb. 1967DEGerman politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #36,526 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,315 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #22,835 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #51,262 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #29,492 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 1994 | 2 | #621 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1994 | 1 | #1,189 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1988 | 1 | #911 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Volkhard mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Old High German Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Volkhard?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔlkhaʁt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Volkhard a male or female name?
- Volkhard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Volkhard have the most bearers?
- Volkhard is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/volkhardThe 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, “Volkhard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.