Wolk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwoʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German surname, from a Low German form of Walter. Also Germanized from a Slavic name, from Czech and Slovene Volk. Also spelled as Wölk.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 132K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 141K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
2,527 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wölk in DE Germany.
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)
German surname, from a Low German form of Walter. Also Germanized from a Slavic name, from Czech and Slovene Volk. Also spelled as Wölk.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wolk 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 | 2,527 | 1 in 132K | 2.5K | Wolk | 295 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Wölk | 93 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 536K | — | Wolk | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 141K | 38 | Wolk | 40 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Wolk | 38 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Wolk | 1 |
2,527 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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). 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)
Wolk 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 Afrikaans, cloud
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Andy Wolkb. 1901USAmerican television writer
- Eugenio Wolkb. 1915IT(1915-1995)
- Emil Wolkb. 1944AUAustralian actor
- Lois Wolkb. 1946USAmerican politician
- Burkhard Wolkb. 1949DEGerman writer
- Douglas Wolkb. 1950USAmerican author and critic
- Tom Wolkb. 1951USAmerican musician (1951–2010)
- Sanna Wolkb. 1970SEProfessor from Sweden
- James Wolkb. 1985USAmerican actor
- Ivy Wolkb. 2004USAmerican actress and comedian
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,685 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 38 | #60,264 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Wolk mean, and where does it come from?
- German surname, from a Low German form of Walter. Also Germanized from a Slavic name, from Czech and Slovene Volk. Also spelled as Wölk. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Wolk?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwoʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wolk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Wolk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolk.
- How common is the name Wolk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,527 people named Wolk in 2010, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolkThe 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, “Wolk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.