Wolpe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwoʊɫpi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolpe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 147K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Wolpe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Wolpe | 27 |
| US United States | 155 | 1 in 2.1M | 217 | Wolpe | 133 |
| BR Brazil | 73 | 1 in 2.9M | 73 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 18 | Wolpe | 30 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Wolpe | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Wolpe | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Wolpe | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Wolpe | 3 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Stefan Wolpeb. 1902USGerman composer (1902–1972)
- Irma Wolpeb. 1902ROAmerican pianist and piano teacher
- Berthold Wolpeb. 1905DEGerman typographer, type designer, calligrapher and book designer (1905–1989)
- Joseph Wolpeb. 1915ZAAmerican behavior therapist (1915–1997)
- Katharina Wolpeb. 1931ATBritish pianist (1931–2013)
- Howard Wolpeb. 1939USAmerican politician (1939-2011)
- David Wolpeb. 1958USAmerican rabbi
- Michael Wolpeb. 1960ILIsraeli composer
- Sholeh Wolpeb. 1962IRIranian writer (born 1962)
- Noham WolpeGBresearcher
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 217 | #91,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 155 | #113,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 142 | #114,166 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Wolpe?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwoʊɫpi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wolpe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 384 people named Wolpe in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolpe.
- How common is the name Wolpe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 155 people named Wolpe in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wolpe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolpeThe 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, “Wolpe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.