Wolven
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwʊɫvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 52K
- NLNetherlands1 in 90K
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
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
289 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Wolvén in SE Sweden.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wolven 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 | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 520 | Wolven | 150 |
| NL Netherlands | 193 | 1 in 90K | 193 | Wolven | 35 |
| IT Italy | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 467K | — | Wolven | 1 |
| IN India | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Wolven | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Wolven | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Wolven | 1 |
| SE Sweden | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Wolvén | 6 |
289 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Wolven 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 Western Frisian, plural of wolf
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 520 | #44,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 470 | #43,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 289 | #68,122 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 193 | #10,760 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Wolven mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or pertaining to wolves; wolflike; wolfish. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wolven?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwʊɫvən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wolven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 289 people named Wolven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolven.
- How common is the name Wolven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Wolven in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolvenThe 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, “Wolven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.