Bolf
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈboʊɫf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bolf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Czech and Serbo-Croatian Bolf, a variant of Volf.
- HRCroatia1 in 16K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 39K
- SKSlovakia1 in 46K
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
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
536 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Borrowed from Czech and Serbo-Croatian Bolf, a variant of Volf.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bolf 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.
536 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 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Juraj Bolfb. 1923SKSlovak physicist (1923-2004)
- Josef Bolfb. 1971CZCzech painter (born 1971)
- René Bolfb. 1974CZCzech soccer player and soccer representant
- Lukáš Bolfb. 1985CZCzech ice hockey player
- Jakub Bolfb. 1998CZCzech association football player
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 574 | #36,716 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 536 | #40,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 521 | #44,416 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 278 | #4,642 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 277 | #5,988 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 262 | #3,141 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 220 | — |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 80 | #74,802 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 53 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Bolf mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Czech and Serbo-Croatian Bolf, a variant of Volf. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bolf?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊɫf/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bolf have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 536 people named Bolf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolf.
- Where is Bolf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bolf is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bolf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 536 people named Bolf in 2010, about 1 in 621 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolfThe 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, “Bolf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.