VolkOFF
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/voʊɫkɔf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
VolkOFF is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 159K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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 VolkOFF 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
139 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Волкофф in FI Finland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
VolkOFF 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 156 | VolkOFF | 6 |
| FI Finland | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | Волкофф | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 53M | — | VolkOFF | 7 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | 6 | — | 1 |
139 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling volkoff. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Boris Volkoffb. 1900CARussian-Canadian dancer, choreographer and teacher
- George Volkoffb. 1914CACanadian physicist (1914–2000)
- Vladimir Volkoffb. 1932FRFrench writer (1932-2005)
- Serge Volkoffb. 1946FRFrench ergonomist
- Raphaële Volkoffb. 1994FRFrench actor
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 148 | #110,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #31,156 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 6 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce VolkOFF?
- A machine transcription gives /voʊɫkɔf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does VolkOFF have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 139 people named VolkOFF, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled VolkOFF.
- Where is VolkOFF most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, VolkOFF is densest in Finland — about 1 in 159 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name VolkOFF?
- In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named VolkOFF in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about VolkOFF?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/volkoffThe 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, “VolkOFF”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.