Wolfram
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic male personal name Wolfram, literally ‘wolf-raven’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈvɔlfʁam/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolfram is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- ATAustria≈1 in 10K
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)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Germanic male personal name Wolfram, literally ‘wolf-raven’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Wolfram, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wolfram 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 | #452 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Wolfram | 185 |
| AT Austria | #948 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 95 | Wolfram | 68 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 33 | Wolfram | 21 |
| US United States | — | 240 | 1 in 1.4M | 1.9K | Wolfram | 162 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 8 | Wolfram | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 49 | 1 in 208K | 49 | — | 10 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Wolfram is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from the Germanic stem hrafn/hraban ‘raven’ + -hramn?; cited as underlying form of Wychgram/Wolfgramm/Wickram
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In English, from OE Wulfrun (f.); first attested Vluerona uxor Vlf 1130 P (L)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Germanic: ‘wolf raven’. Xx Xaver g Roman Catholic name. See _ Xavier in main dictionary. ‘Xaveria 2 Feminine form of xaver. APPENDIX: ITALIAN Z A APPENDIX: ITALIAN
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, tungsten
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, alter deutscher männl. Vom. (ahd. wolf »Wolf« + ahd. hraban »Rabe«; Wolf und
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Wolfram von Eschenbachb. 1170DEGerman knight and poet (1170–1220)
- Wolfram von Richthofenb. 1895PLGerman military officer and aviator (1895–1945)
- Wolfram Sieversb. 1905DEGerman Managing Director of the NS Association German Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) (1905-1948)
- Wolfram von Sodenb. 1908DEGerman Assyriologist (1908–1996)
- Wolfram Eberhardb. 1909DEGerman academic (1909–1989)
- Wolfram Meyerb. 1931DEGerman politician (1931-2000)
- Christoph Blocherb. 1940CHnot in their usual nameSwiss politician, industrialist, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Wolfram Wuttkeb. 1961DEGerman football player and coach (1961–2015)
- Wolfram Grandezkab. 1969DEGerman actor
- Wolfram Waibel Jr.b. 1970ATAustrian sports shooter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,981 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 47 | #13,373 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 33 | #25,467 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #78,786 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Wolfram mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic male personal name Wolfram, literally ‘wolf-raven’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wolfram?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɔlfʁam/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Wolfram a male or female name?
- Wolfram is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Wolfram have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Wolfram in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolfram.
- How common is the name Wolfram?
- In the United States, the national register counted 240 people named Wolfram in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Wolfram compared with other names?
- In Germany, Wolfram is the 452nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wolfram?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolframThe 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, “Wolfram” — the 452nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.