Rohlf

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rohlf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Surname form with long oo/oh vowel; part of the plate’s vowel-length contrast with Rolf.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 108K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 534K
  • SSSouth Sudan≈1 in 25K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈740 people, est.

Sources
179 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

South Sudan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Surname form with long oo/oh vowel; part of the plate’s vowel-length contrast with Rolf.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rohlf 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.

Where Rohlf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈740 est.≈1 in 108K—Rohlf73
US United States—6231 in 534K638Rohlf179
SS South Sudan#297≈430 est.≈1 in 25K—Rohlf1
IT Italy—≈140 est.≈1 in 455K—Rohlf1
GH Ghana—≈88 est.≈1 in 332K—Rohlf1
AU Australia—≈68 est.≈1 in 375K—Rohlf37

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. 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)

Rohlf 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, Kurzform zu Rudolf; die Karte zeigt die Vokaldehnung/ -variation in Rohlf, mit Nebenformen und patronymischem -ing. 117 Belege (PLZ 272) und 196 Belege (PLZ 324).

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Patronym zu Rolf mit o/oh-Schreibung zur Längenanzeige; teils mit h als Dehnungszeichen. Karte zeigt o/oo/oh-Varianten; 10 Types, 2110 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 2

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 Rohlf mean, and where does it come from?
Surname form with long oo/oh vowel; part of the plate’s vowel-length contrast with Rolf. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
In which country does Rohlf have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 744 people named Rohlf in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rohlf.
How common is the name Rohlf?
In the United States, the national register counted 623 people named Rohlf in 2010, about 1 in 534 thousand residents.
How common is Rohlf compared with other names?
In South Sudan, Rohlf is the 297th most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rohlf” — the 297th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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