Wolfs
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: third-person singular simple present indicative of wolf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wˈʊlfs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolfs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 6.7K
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,720 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
genitive singular of Wolf
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wolfs is read(measured from records)
Wolfs is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English30%
third-person singular simple present indicative of wolf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch24%
wolfish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German22%
genitive singular of Wolf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wolfs in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wolfs 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 2,720 | 1 in 6.4K | 2.7K | Wolfs | 11 |
| BE Belgium | 1,745 | 1 in 6.7K | 1.7K | Wolfs | 8 |
| US United States | 121 | 1 in 2.7M | 122 | Wolfs | 15 |
| ES Spain | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | Wolfs | 5 |
| CO Colombia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Wolfs | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 2 |
2,720 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Hubert Wolfsb. 1899BEBelgian painter (1899-1937)
- Jef Wolfsb. 1910NLDutch mayor
- Rein Wolfsb. 1960NLDutch art historian
- Mike Wolfsb. 1970CACanadian sailor
- Sofie Wolfsb. 1981BEBelgian swimmer
- Noémie Wolfsb. 1988BEBelgian singer
- Pipy Wolfsb. 2002NLDutch handball player
- Herman Wolfscinematographer
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.7K | #402 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.7K | #615 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.6K | #669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 122 | #140,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 121 | #138,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Wolfs come from?
- genitive singular of Wolf Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wolfs?
- A machine transcription gives /wˈʊlfs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wolfs mean?
- In English, third-person singular simple present indicative of wolf
- In which country does Wolfs have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Wolfs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolfs.
- Where is Wolfs most common?
- Wolfs is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wolfs?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,720 people named Wolfs in 2007, about 1 in 6.4 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/wolfsThe 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, “Wolfs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.