Wólf
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wólf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German wolf, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos.
- USUnited States1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 7.4K
- PLPoland1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
70,031 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wolf in US United States, CH Switzerland, PL Poland and 1 more.
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)
- Middle High Germanwolf(measured from records)
- Old High Germanwolf(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*wulf(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*wulfaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*wĺ̥kʷos(measured from records)
From Middle High German wolf, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Compare Dutch and English wolf, Danish ulv, Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐍆𐍃 (wulfs).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wólf 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 | — | 70,031 | 1 in 4.8K | 70K | Wolf | 126 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4,217 | 1 in 2K | 4.2K | Wolf | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,816 | 1 in 14K | 1.5K | Wolf | 95 |
| CZ Czechia | #224 | 1,448 | 1 in 7.4K | 1.5K | Wolf | 70 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,194 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 694 | 1 in 8.5K | 694 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 195 | 1 in 11K | 195 | — | 1 |
70,031 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #139,551 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #158,841 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wólf mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German wolf, from Old High German wolf, from Proto-West Germanic *wulf, from Proto-Germanic *wulfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Wólf have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 70 thousand people named Wólf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolf.
- Where is Wólf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wólf is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wólf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 70,031 people named Wólf in 2010, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Wólf compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Wólf is the 224th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%B3lfThe 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, “Wólf” — the 224th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.