How Many People Are Named Wolf?
people named Wolf are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 213,082 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,658 babies named Wolf in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
107 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of WOLFGANG, WOLFRAM or other names containing the Germanic element wulf meaning "wolf". It can also be simply from the German or English word.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Wolf in English. Counting Wolf and these spellings together, about 2,130 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Wolf in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Wolf alive today is about 15 years old, and 85% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Wolf first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 2021, to 107 babies. In 2025, 83 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Wolf has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,605, in 2021. In 2025 it ranked #1,902.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,902 |
| Best rank | #1,605 (2021) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,341 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Wolf alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Wolf were born in New York than in any other state: about 429 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Wolf was given 9 times as often in New York and 2.1 times in California.
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