Wolkow
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Wolkow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Russian Волков (Volkov) or Polish Wołków.
- DEGermany≈1 in 280Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 170Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Russian Волков (Volkov) or Polish Wołków.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Wolkow is found
(measured from records)Wolkow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Wolkow | 62 |
| US United States | 193 | 1 in 1.7M | 210 | Wolkow | 108 |
| PL Poland | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 669K | — | Wolkow | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Wolkow | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Wolkow | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 708K | — | Wolkow | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Wolkow | 1 |
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 2000. 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)- George Volkoffb. 1914CAnot in their usual nameCanadian physicist (1914–2000)
- Vladislav Volkovb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut (1935–1971)
- Sergey Volkovb. 1973RUnot in their usual nameRussian cosmonaut
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wolkow mean, and where does it come from?
- From Russian Волков (Volkov) or Polish Wołków. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Wolkow?
- Mondonomo estimates about 296 people named Wolkow in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolkow. After it come United States, Poland, Switzerland and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wolkow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193 people named Wolkow in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wolkow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolkowThe 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, “Wolkow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.