Wolke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cloud
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈwoʊɫk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 430K
- IEIreland≈1 in 102K
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 Wolke 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 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)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)cloud
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wolke 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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Wolke | 100 |
| US United States | 774 | 1 in 430K | 864 | Wolke | 161 |
| PL Poland | 171as Woelke | 1 in 224K | 86 | Wolke | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Wolke | 31 |
| NL Netherlands | 107 | 1 in 161K | 107 | Wolke | 13 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Wolke | 6 |
| IE Ireland | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Wolke | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 26as Woelke | 1 in 130K | 26 | — | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Wolke 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.
In German, cloud, a visible mass of condensed water droplets in the air
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from ahd. wolka(n) 'cloud'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Ernestine Messerb. 1861CZnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1861)
- Bruno Wolkeb. 1904DEGerman racing cyclist (1904–1973)
- Robert Wolkeb. 1928USAmerican chemist (1928–2021)
- Dieter Wolkeb. 1942PLGerman mathematician (1942-2015)
- Manfred Wolkeb. 1943DEEast German boxer (1943–2024)
- Jay P. Wolkeb. 1954USAmerican artist and photographer (1954- )
- Christian Wolkeb. 1956DEGerman rower
- Dieter Wolkeb. 1957GBUK perinatal mental health researcher (1957-)
- Achmed Wolkeb. 1968DEGerman bicycle racer
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 864 | #26,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 825 | #30,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 774 | #30,250 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 107 | #18,050 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #54,378 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #53,894 |
| 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
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Wolke mean, and where does it come from?
- cloud Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Wolke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwoʊɫk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wolke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Wolke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolke.
- How common is the name Wolke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 774 people named Wolke in 2010, about 1 in 430 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolkeThe 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, “Wolke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.