Wolf-Dieter
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/vɔlfdiːtɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolf-Dieter is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 81K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 273K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Wolfdieter in TZ Tanzania.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wolf-Dieter 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Wolf-Dieter | 81 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 456K | — | WolfDieter | 1 |
| PL Poland | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Wolf-Dieter | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 4 | Wolf-Dieter | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Wolf-Dieter | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 11 | — | 2 |
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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023). 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)- Wolf-Dieter Firnhaberb. 1934DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1934-1981)
- Wolf-Dieter Lutzb. 1935DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1935-)
- Wolf-Dieter Beyerb. 1938DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (CDU), MdL Saxony (1938–2019)
- Wolf-Dieter Holtzb. 1941DEnot in their usual nameGerman middle- and long-distance runner (1941-)
- Wolf-Dieter Storlb. 1942DEnot in their usual nameGerman-American cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and author
- Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahnckeb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman pharmacist
- Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelderb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football referee (1944–2014)
- Wolf-Dieter Zumpfortb. 1945DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Wolf-Dieter Hasencleverb. 1945DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Wolf-Dieter Poschmannb. 1951DEnot in their usual nameGerman television presenter, journalist and athletics competitor (1951-2021)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 11 | — |
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 Wolf-Dieter?
- A machine transcription gives /vɔlfdiːtɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Wolf-Dieter a male or female name?
- Wolf-Dieter 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 Wolf-Dieter have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Wolf-Dieter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Wolf-Dieter.
- How common is the name Wolf-Dieter?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Wolf-Dieter, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wolf-Dieter?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolf-dieterThe 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, “Wolf-Dieter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.